Wayne LaPierre Quotes

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

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.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

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.

… in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress

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.

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.

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.

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

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

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

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.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

Why do we not celebrate the 4th of July? The Declaration of Independence is just as precious to me today as it was twenty years ago! Has it not the same validity that it had in 1776?

Because of its rhetorical power, the Founding Fathers mythos is always going to be invoked for rhetorical legitimacy.

Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the fighting temper of the Revolutionists at the proper heat were the boldest and most radical thinkers - men like Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson.

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