#founding

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

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The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#america #country #days #faith #founding

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#american way #anyone #documents #equality #founding

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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Well, I have the same vision I think that the Founding Fathers of this country had. ↗

— David Duke

#fathers #founding #founding fathers #had #i

The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#freedom #government-corruption #gun-control #gun-laws #gun-rights

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. ↗

— Steve King

#constitutional #constitutional republic #crafted #democracy #failures

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

#answer #constitution #deal #dealt #fathers

What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not. ↗

— James Madison

#founding-fathers #not-an-apology #religious-freedom #freedom

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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