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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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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. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

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My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy. ↗

— Ron Paul

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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. ↗

— Hugo Black

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If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended. ↗

— John Cornyn

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The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble. ↗

— Jesse Helms

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