Founding-fathers Quotes

Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after...

...Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness o...

For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brot...

Give me liberty or give me d

Give me liberty or give me death.".]

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war ...

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly hal...

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no oth...

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare alread...

I hope we shall ... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare alread...

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear...

How grossly are they mistaken in imagining slavery to be disallowed by the Alcoran! Are not the two ...

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to...

Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ...