American Founders Quotes

The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.

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

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.