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I often wonder if the Founding Fathers sat down in the pub over steins of ale, or at a dining room table over a hardy supper, and said to each other, Let’s start a country.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

This is my impression, you ready? This is my impression… of the Founding Fathers of America… when the Constitution was being written. You ready? Here it goes. Hurry up and finish that Constitution, nigger. I’m trying to get some sleep. It’s not bad, right?

— Dave Chappelle, Himself, Dave Chappelle, imdb.com

The founders were imperfect geniuses. They wrote a lot of our bigotries into [the Constitution]. ... If you think about how we have overcome those things, it's always been by creating, first, calls to consciousness, speaking truth about the injustices, and then bringing together those uncommon coali…

— Cory Booker, npr.org

The Founding Fathers had called for bankruptcy protection in the Constitution itself, and surely even the banking lobby wouldn’t pick a fight with them.

— Elizabeth Warren, amazon.com

Clay Jensen: Well, the Founding Fathers did grow and use hemp...but it wasn't weed, exactly. Jeff Atkins: Those are different? Clay Jensen: Yeah. Yeah, so James Madison probably wasn't a mad stoner, or, uh, at least not from the hemp.

— Nic Sheff, Clay Jensen, Dylan Minnette, imdb.com

You see, my feeling is, I think the Founding Fathers, they just got tired. And really, can you blame them? I mean, you can’t think of everything. Black swans, Murphy’s Law... I mean, at a certain point, you just have to sign off and cross your goddamn fingers and hope for the best.

— Bill Kennedy, Frank Underwood, Kevin Spacey, imdb.com

You say you are conservative — eminently conservative — while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which…

— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikisource.org

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those w…

— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question. I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

— Pat Robertson, beliefnet.com

Tribalism was an urge our Founding Fathers assumed we could overcome. And so it has become our greatest vulnerability.

— Andrew Sullivan, nymag.com

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

— Ron Paul, chron.com

The French worshipped [Benjamin] Franklin as an Enlightenment god whose famous kite-flying experiment debunked superstition by proving that lightning was nothing more than electricity.

— Larry Flynt, amazon.com

By the age of 42, Ben Franklin was America's first media mogul, with his own news network, and so rich that he could retire in 1747 to concentrate on the passions that would make him famous: inventions, science experiments, politics and women.

— Larry Flynt, amazon.com

Like America's leaders throughout history, the Founders had vigorous sex drives and vibrant sex lives that played a major role in building our nation.

— Larry Flynt, amazon.com

Today we tend to imagine the people who built the early Republic to have been as dignified and composed as the historic documents they left behind. The Founders were indeed noble and gracious, but they were also earthy, lusty and as interested in sex and sex scandal as we are today.

— Larry Flynt, amazon.com

When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby…

— Alexander Hamilton, founders.archives.gov

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want…

— Alexander Hamilton, founders.archives.gov

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