Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

Judy Biggert

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

Tom Rice

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

Jesse Ventura

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

Michael Beschloss

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Americans wouldn’t be in the economic predicament we’re in, if there were no America. So we can all thank our founding fathers for America’s current monetary nightmare.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United States. Thus the Fou...

The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America

It wasn’t the first time he’d run for his life. And it most likely would not be the last. In the past few decades, though, he’d mostly run from angry fathers who’d found him where they felt he should not be. Or he’d run from town guards—s...

What a Dragon Should Know

The father's job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse and ride into battle when it's necessary to do so. If you don't get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

Alan Lomax

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.

Sharon Stone

Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not ver...

David Rockefeller

Moses is our true founding father.

Bruce Feiler

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

James Meredith

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

Dweezil Zappa

To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him.

Socrates

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

Hugo Black

I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me, those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in front, to see my son, and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes. As I...

How Green Was My Valley

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

Mike Quigley