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The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
The Founding Fathers gave birth to a new type of nation.
Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens.
It's hard to say what the Founding Fathers would think of the modern presidency.
Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.
The Founding Fathers had just four Cabinet departments and the postmaster general.
I think our founding fathers believed in nullification. There's no doubt about that.
Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic.
I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.
Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.
The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.
The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.
I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.
I think the American system is incredibly well developed. I think the founding fathers were geniuses.
Our Founding Fathers knew that without Second Amendment freedom, all of our freedoms could be in jeopardy.
The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.
Change' - Obama's election mantra - is a direct, in-your-face affront to the very vision of our Founding Fathers.
Nothing is more important to me, and nothing was more important to our founding fathers, than freedom of religion.
When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.
Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?
That's what the founding fathers intended, that most decisions be made at the state level, not at the federal level.
Our Founding Fathers, regular men who did great things together, established this system along with other regular men.
Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.
Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women.
If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.
Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.
There's some jerks. There's some big egos. There are a few that think they're one of the Founding Fathers... in both parties.
The United States is a constitutional republic, and the Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the mob couldn't undermine it.
The Founding Fathers were truly some of the most gifted thinkers in history. They understood that power could be used to corrupt.
I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.
When our Founding Fathers wrote the historic words 'all men are created equal,' they probably didn't have people like me in mind.
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
Soliciting anything of value from a foreign national to help a U.S. campaign is not just illegal; it is the Founding Fathers' nightmare.
The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.
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.
The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.
The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious.
The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.
Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.
I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and balances.
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
I think our Founding Fathers, they would disagree, but they weren't disagreeable. They didn't hate each other; they didn't want to kill each other off.
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.
If America's Founding Fathers espoused openness to religion, creationism, and the Bible being taught in schools, then it beckons the question, Why don't we?
Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.
