H. W. Brands Quotes

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

Founding Fathers

Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed he Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits . . . noble spirits before God.

The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits.

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.

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.

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

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

If you seek our Founding Fathers monument, just look around you.

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.

Our Founding Fathers, regular men who did great things together, established this system along with other regular men.

Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

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

Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

I'm so proud of myself. I thought, 'I've got to learn about American history.' I literally took two months off and watched every documentary known to man. I really didn't know Benjamin Franklin was so cool.

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.

May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

The Declaration of Independence is no part of the Constitution or of any other book.

Although The Declaration of Independence is not, like The Constitution, the law of the land, it is certainly the spirit of the land.

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.