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The prescience of the founding fathers continues to astonish me. They were freedom fighters. They made America. They gave us this magical country. They also were slaveowners - which is confusing to their legacy. How could such brilliant men have only secured freedom for themselves, but not their wives or their slaves?

~Andy Dunn

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The 'teavangelicals' of the 21st century have flipped the script, turning their ideas about Christianity, social responsibility, and care for the downtrodden into a mythology of Christian founding fathers.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: About Care Century Christian Christianity Fathers Flipped Founding Founding Fathers Ideas Mythology Responsibility Script Social Social Responsibility Turning 21St Century

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Proper training and federal supervision in state-federal partnerships are essential to both assuring constitutional rights and enforcing our immigration laws. Our Founding Fathers' concept of federalism does not prohibit such cooperation, and we have learned from experience that joint efforts work best.

~Asa Hutchinson

Topics: Best Both Concept Constitutional Cooperation Does Efforts Enforcing Essential Experience Fathers Federal Federalism Founding Founding Fathers Immigration Joint Laws Learned Our Partnerships Prohibit Proper Rights Supervision Training Work

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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

~Barber Conable

Topics: Congress Democracy Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Less Majority Move Our Quickly Responsible Too Understood Very Way Well Will You

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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

~Barry Goldwater

Topics: Been Conformity Creative Despotism Differences Emancipation Equality Fathers First Founding Founding Fathers Leads Liberty Our Our Time Rightly Then Time Tragically Understood Wrongly

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The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

~Bill O'Reilly

Topics: Activism American Description Does Driven Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Government Had Like Local Loose Mind More Party Self-Reliance Simply Smaller Smaller Government Sounds Tea Tea Party Want Who

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We all went up to Washington on a mission to change things. What I found is that the Founding Fathers set it up where it's a little more difficult to do. We've got the Senate and the president to deal with.

~Blake Farenthold

Topics: Change Change Things Deal Difficult Fathers Found Founding Founding Fathers Got Little Mission More President Senate Set Things Up Washington Where

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We have overcome economic devastation, defeated mighty oppressors, and lifted up generation after generation of Americans. We can - and we will - do it again. For that is our birthright as members of the American family - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, immigrant, or descendant of the Founding Fathers themselves.

~Brian Sandoval

Topics: After Again American American Family Asian Birthright Black Defeated Descendant Devastation Economic Family Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Generation Hispanic Immigrant Lifted Members Mighty Our Overcome Themselves Up White Will

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That's what the founding fathers intended, that most decisions be made at the state level, not at the federal level.

~Carlos Lopez-Cantera

Topics: Decisions Fathers Federal Founding Founding Fathers Intended Level Made Most State

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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

~Charles A. Beard

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