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We must bring the rule of law to its full fruition in the United States, and when we do, we will have achieved the goals and rhetoric of our Founding Fathers.

~David Boies

Topics: Achieved Bring Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Fruition Full Goals Law Must Our Rhetoric Rule Rule Of Law States United United States Will

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The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

~David Harsanyi

Topics: Common Endlessly Fathers Fear Few Founding Founding Fathers Impulse Lead Many Might Out Passion Played Rational Rights Some Worried

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The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Bad Clear Fathers Find Founding Founding Fathers Free Free Speech Ideas Instructions Many Means Obnoxious Right Speech Tolerance Were

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I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed.

~Dean Ornish

Topics: Abuse Always Any Balances Believe Checks Checks And Balances Concentrated Corrupts Country Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Get Got Much Needed Our Place Power Power Corrupts Right Strongly Tends Time Too Too Much You

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In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

~Doc Hastings

Topics: Fathers Foundation Founding Founding Fathers Independence Liberties Nation Our Remain Secure Sought Summer Today

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In the fifties, no one wore beards. In Eisenhower's day, as in the time of the Founding Fathers, all chins were smooth, while during the Civil War, beards were as common as sepsis.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Civil Civil War Common Day Eisenhower Fathers Fifties Founding Founding Fathers Smooth Time War Were While Wore

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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Adulation Career Earned Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Hail His Long Long Career Merely Now Ordinary Ordinary People Other People Throughout Washington Whom

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Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: After Best Brief Business Could Death Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Franklin Go Got His House House Of Representatives James Known Listening Madison Months Mourning Notice Official Representatives Some Sort Then Tribute Two Voted Wear Without

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The American public believes the Founding Fathers were close to infallible and that, while our political system has its faults, it functions far better than other democracies. But is it true?

~Elizabeth Flock

Topics: American American Public Believes Better Close Democracy Far Fathers Faults Founding Founding Fathers Functions Infallible Other Our Political Political System Public System Than True Were While

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Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

~Ernest Istook

Topics: Being Day Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Home Like Many Our Present Students Taught Thousands

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