Founders Quotes

“The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“In this age, there is no substitute for Christianity. That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants. The great, vital and conservative element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure, doctrines and divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
― United States House Judiciary Committee of Congress 1854

“Democracy is easy; republicanism is hard. Democracy is fueled by passion; republicanism is founded on moderation. Democracy is loud, raucous, disorderly; republicanism is quiet, cool, judicious – and that we still live in its light is the Founders' most wondrous deed.”
― Jon Meacham, American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

“Founders never leave our memories for they leave indelible footprints on our minds. They give us the reasons to look back and ponder. They give us the reasons to look forward with the hope and aspirations to beating their footprints of distinctiveness. Their mistakes are our lessons and the reasons to reason.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monuments; if you want to understand the real life and the wisdom of great men who are long gone, go to their libraries!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Neither nations nor children should be conceived in public.”
― James D. Best, Tempest at Dawn

“It’s not just absolute power that the Founders sought to prevent. Implicit in its structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or “ism,” any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single, unalterable course, or drive both majorities and minorities into the cruelties of the Inquisition, the pogrom, the gulag, or the jihad. The Founders may have trusted in God, but true to the Enlightenment spirit, they also trusted in the minds and senses that God had given them. They were suspicious of abstraction and liked asking questions, which is why at every turn in our early history theory yielded to fact and necessity.”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“Founders aspire to create meaningful, strategic solutions that will make some corner of the world, no matter how small, a better place.”
― Jim Marggraff, How to Raise a Founder With Heart: A Guide for Parents to Develop Your Child’s Problem-Solving Abilities

“The first servant-leader in any successful organization is its founder.”
― Salil Jha

“Insiders who question the status quo get pushed out, but outsiders are the ones who change the status quo.

Ever notice that many startup founders that disrupt industries are outsiders to their industry?”
― Richie Norton

“A major reason so many start-ups fail is the flawed assumption that if the product is good enough, consumers will find it, the Field of Dreams philosophy of Build it and they will come. Except a lot of times, they don’t. Founders can be overly optimistic when it comes to acquiring customers instead of better preparing for what is usually a time consuming and expensive aspect of growing a business.”
― Ziad Abdelnour- Start-Up Saboteurs How Incompetence, Ego, and Small Thinking Prevent Wealth

“The basic principal of this government is the will of the people.”
― Robert Marion La Follette