America was founded by people who believe that God is their Rock of safety. — Ronald Reagan
American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just. — Ginny Brown-Waite
Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. — John Gunther
The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government. — Walter E. Williams
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. — Abraham Lincoln
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil. — Richard Allen
The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation. — Pat Robertson
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. — Leland Stanford
Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics. — Thomas Sowell
The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified. — Ron Paul
Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness. — William Bradford
He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all. — Samuel Adams
It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic. — Andrew Johnson
It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! — Unknown Author
Independence Day Quotes
We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers. — Bhagat Singh
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Edward Abbey
You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland. — Chandra Shekhar Azad
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. — Bob Marley
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free. — Rabindranath Tagore
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. — Condoleezza Rice
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. — William Faulkner
Founding Fathers Quotes
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. — Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. — Benjamin Franklin
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil. — Thomas Jefferson
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. — Unknown Author
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. — Charles Stanley
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. s with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — Benjamin Franklin
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. — Thomas Jefferson
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us. — John Hancock
Us Founding Fathers Quotes
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. — Samuel Adams
I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - thing I had no words for.
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. — Samuel Adams
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. — Thomas Jefferson
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just — Thomas Jefferson
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry
Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ. — James Madison
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. — Abraham Lincoln
American Founding Fathers Quotes
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. — John Adams
I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson
I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president - not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans. — Caroline Kennedy
Don't lose yourself just because you found somebody
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. — Thomas Jefferson
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. — Joseph Sobran
Question with boldness even the existence of a god. — Thomas Jefferson
Watch you thoughts, for they become words. Watch you words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for the become you character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that. And I think I am fine.
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. — Thomas Jefferson
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. — Joseph Story
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests. — Alexander Hamilton
The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims. — John Adams
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture. — Woodrow Wilson
One of the greatest thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson
I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel's war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system. — Louis Farrakhan
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? — Thomas Jefferson
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened. — John Lennox
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. — Plato
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity — John Adams
For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson
Founding Fathers Democracy Quotes
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. — Samuel Adams
My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution. — James Meredith
The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They
always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as
elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper
spheres. — Gouverneur Morris
There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one your are capable of living.
All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson. — Andy Borowitz
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty. — Benjamin Franklin
Founding Fathers Christian Quotes
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame. — Thomas Jefferson
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. — Benjamin Rush
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams
Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society. — George Washington
Without Virtue there can be no liberty — Benjamin Rush
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs. — Thomas Jefferson
The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained... — George Washington
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. — Voltaire
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments. — Gouverneur Morris
Founding Fathers Religious Quotes
Congress has no power to make any religious establishments. — Roger Sherman
The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible. — Benjamin Rush
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. — George Washington
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! — John Adams
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning. — Benjamin Franklin
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. — George Washington
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. — John Adams
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God. — John Adams
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? — John Adams
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. — Benjamin Franklin
Debt By Founding Fathers Quotes
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife. — Thomas Jefferson
As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine. — Alexander Hamilton
To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones. — George Washington
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. — George Washington
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own. — John Adams
Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty — Benjamin Franklin
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years. — Thomas Jefferson
States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct. — Alexander Hamilton
Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity. — John Adams
It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. — Benjamin Franklin
It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible. — Thomas Paine
Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to our country by removing the influence of religion. If you separate God from the public arena, inevitably you separate good from our government. — Bill Bright
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. — Thomas Paine
What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder. — Thomas Paine
I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments-but if the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government — Rufus King
Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good. — John Adams
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live. — Thomas Jefferson
The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice? — William McKinley
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. — Charles Austin Beard
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. — Barry Goldwater
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity. — Benjamin Franklin
Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute. — Philip K. Howard
The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. — George Washington
And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee. — Dennis Miller
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. — John Adams
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night. — Bruno Schulz
If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash. — George Washington
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. — George Washington
I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations. — Joseph Story
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. — Stephen Colbert
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God. — George Washington
Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs. — Phil Robertson
See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth to it; Christ himself executeth the office of a Mediator. Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity. — Richard Sibbes
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