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
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
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 founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation. — Pat Robertson
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. — John Gunther
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
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
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton
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
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
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
American Founding Fathers Quotes
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
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. — John Adams
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
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 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
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
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
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
Founding Fathers Quotes
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. — Benjamin Franklin
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Edward Abbey
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. — Benjamin Franklin
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
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
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
You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Founding Fathers Of America Quotes
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
Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ. — James Madison
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
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture. — Woodrow Wilson
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
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
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
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
Our Founding Fathers 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
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
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
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams
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
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
Founding Fathers Religious Quotes
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
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
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
... 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
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Question with boldness even the existence of a god. — Thomas Jefferson
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
Founding Fathers Christian Quotes
Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society. — George Washington
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
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. — Voltaire
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
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments. — Gouverneur Morris
If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.
Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity. — John Adams
It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible. — Thomas Paine
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
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
Founding Fathers Religion Quotes
It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. — Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
[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
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington
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
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 Atheist Quotes
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson
God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world. — John Adams
I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world. — John Adams
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing. — Thomas Paine
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy. — George Washington
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. — Thomas Paine
If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists. — George Washington
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years? — John Adams
I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them. — Benjamin Franklin
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. — Thomas Paine
Christianity From Founding Fathers Quotes
It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community. — David Barton
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. — John Adams
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. — Thomas Jefferson
I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this. — Benjamin Franklin
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity. — John Adams
The truth is, that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those, calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in His genuine words. — Thomas Jefferson
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. — Thomas Jefferson
I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book. — Thomas Paine
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight. — Thomas Jefferson
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. — Noah Webster
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. — Samuel Adams
The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it. — Tertullian
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
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
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. — Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster
A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything. — George Washington
For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington
Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning us against the dangers of democracy, yet today teachers and politicians use the word as if it were an offering of gold. — Neal Boortz
Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit and truth.' It is kindled within us only when the Spirit of God touches our human spirit. — Richard J. Foster
The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people. — Manmohan Singh
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry. — Thomas Paine
All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened. — James Cook
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