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I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

~Chris Christie

Topics: Acceptance Become Believe Country Desire Emotions Fathers Fleeing Founding Founding Fathers Greater Had Know Loved Needed Now Our Paralyzed Passions Popularity Principles Rooted Social Social Acceptance Strengths Than Times Were Wisdom I Believe

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Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

~Chris Christie

Topics: Acceptance Country Emotions Fathers Fleeing Founding Founding Fathers Greater Had Know Needed Now Our Passions Popularity Principles Rooted Social Social Acceptance Strengths Than Times Were Wisdom

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If America's Founding Fathers espoused openness to religion, creationism, and the Bible being taught in schools, then it beckons the question, Why don't we?

~Chuck Norris

Topics: America Being Bible Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Openness Question Religion Schools Taught Then Why

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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.

~Claire Mccaskill

Topics: Around Because Beliefs Compromises Did Different Different Ideas Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Genius Happen Ideas Made Makeup Our People Place Realize Senate States Supposed United United States United States Senate Where Work You

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The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Against Also Brilliant Color Deep Fact False Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Idols Indigenous Indigenous People Many Men People Prejudices Presidents Raise Sort Up Were Women Wrestle

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You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

~Colin Powell

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Conservatives don't need to look for 'hope' in a person because people are imperfect. Conservatives put their stock in the ideology ushered forth by our Founding Fathers, the ideals that keep us free men.

~Dana Loesch

Topics: Because Conservatives Fathers Forth Founding Founding Fathers Free Free Men Hope Ideals Ideology Imperfect Keep Look Men Need Our People Person Put Stock Us

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Bureaucrats want you to think that the system is too complex because they want you to be stupid about it and uninterested in it. They work very hard to create as many levels as possible away from the simplistic government our Founding Fathers formed for one simple reason: they don't want you to know what they are doing.

~Dana Loesch

Topics: About Away Because Bureaucrats Complex Create Doing Fathers Formed Founding Founding Fathers Government Hard Know Levels Many Many Levels Our Possible Reason Simple Simplistic Stupid System Think Too Very Want Work You

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Our Founding Fathers, regular men who did great things together, established this system along with other regular men.

~Dana Loesch

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I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

~Dana Rohrabacher

Topics: Clearly Constitution Criminal Deal Established Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Like Matters Our Power Powers Rise Separation States Support Use

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