Jon Bon Jovi Quotes

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

Founding Fathers

Benjamin Franklin was probably America’s first juvenile delinquent.

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

America started out as an invention society.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom & Father of the University of Virginia

Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame ... and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.

Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.

Interest in the Founders has risen and fallen over time, as has admiration for them and their accomplishments.

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.

Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846.

One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.

I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.

To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States - I flew to Greece, the birthplace of democracy. I bused to Philly, the home of independence. I even, if you can believe it, read the Constitution of the United States.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?

I found him [Benjamin Franklin] social but not talkative, and when he spoke something useful dropped from his tongue.