Founding Quotes

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

America was founded on the basis of racism and bigotry.

You can’t convince me that the Founding Fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede.

America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.

Trust is not what the framers of the United States constitution and of this country relied on.

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.

America was built on her citizens.

Whoever desires to found a nation and give it laws must begin by assuming that all men are bad and always ready to display their evil nature.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

You know what this nation is? It's a disruptive start-up. It was a group of rich guys that got together and said, 'You know what? We're going to break away from the other countries and start our own country.'

Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism.

It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity—unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

Sage and hero, side by side, Building for their sons the State Which they shall rule with pride

The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

The President and Vice-President of the United States, Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Postmaster-General, the Attorney-General, the Chief Justice, and the Commissioner of the Patent Office of the United States, and the mayor of the city of Washington, during the time for which they shall hold their respective offices, and such other persons as they may elect honorary members, be, and they are hereby, constituted an "establishment," by the name of the "Smithsonian Institution," for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men; and by that name shall be known and have perpetual succession

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

America was not discovered. America was built.

As a founder you have to build a team some day, so why not start the day you found the company?

Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.

Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and there have been changes demographically in the United States since the days of its founding. So they're trying to tell you that the United States' greatness happened because of diversity. Well, go back and look at the days the country was founded, and they do. When they do that, they see how racist and bigoted this country was. they see the seeds for bigotry and racism and discrimination were sown at the founding, is how it's now taught.