Quotes about Founding

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

It's embedded in founding documents that could simultaneously proclaim all men equal and yet count a slave as three-fifths of a man. It finds

America had, I believe, a divine founding. Call it American exceptionalism if you like. But that makes America all the more vulnerable to God's judgment if we become accustomed to glamorizing war, excusing lies, and parading our might and dominance.

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Declaration of Independence: that all of our rights and liberties come to us from our Creator.

White men are hated in America because most are conservative Christians, like those who founded and built our great country.

Since the Pilgrims came to our shores in 1620, religious freedom and religious tolerance have been the single most important principle of American life.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety.

The phrase 'separation of church and state,' which appears in no founding document (only in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson), means that America must never have a state religion, not that the state be indifferent to religion.