Founding Forefathers Quotes & Sayings

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon, ... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports. — Robert Benchley

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times. — Mario Batali

It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating. — Jessica Lange

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived. — Robert A. Heinlein

It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth. — Julia Cameron

I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose. — Helio Gracie

Our Founding Fathers deliberately used the Bible as their guide. They tried to ensure that schools, likewise, use the Bible to teach Christian self-government, the true source of liberty. These Scriptural principles were so instilled in the minds of our forefathers that they would fight and die for liberty. This divine fight, however, is not easily won our arch foe is ruthless in enslaving mankind. — Richard S. Wheeler

America's forefathers had a vision of a spiritually enlightened utopia, in which freedom of thought, education of the masses, and scientific advancement would replace the darkness of outdated religious superstition. — Dan Brown

And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee. — Dennis Miller