Founders Quotes - Page 20

• Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

  Nancy Lublin

  Country, Bones, Entrepreneurship

  "Innovation is Great but Execution is Better" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2009.

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• Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Hands, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.782, Modern Library

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• Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect. My fundamental principle would be ... that we are to be saved by our good works which are within our power, and not by our faith which is not within our power.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Principles, Example, Would Be

  Thomas Jefferson, Allen Jayne (1984). “The religious and moral wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: an anthology”

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• The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

  Franz Kafka

  God, Law, Faithful

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Leadership, Running, Zuckerberg

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• The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

  David Barton

  Christian, Running, Religious

  David Barton (1991). “America, to Pray Or Not to Pray?: A Statistical Look at What Hapened When Religious Principles Were Separated from Public Affairs”, Wallbuilder Press

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• The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Expression

  David Barton (2013). “Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion”, p.24, BookBaby

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• From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, Anchors

  William J. Bennett (1989). “Our Children and Our Country: Improving America's Schools and Affirming the Common Culture”, Touchstone Books

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• I'm the founder of the McAfee Anti-Virus Software Company. Although I have had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking 'how do I uninstall this software'. I have no idea.

  John McAfee

  Years, Ideas, Viruses

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Persuasion, Crisis

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier”, p.405, tredition

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• As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how to meticulously manage my time.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Daughter, Simple, Wife

  "LearnVest's CEO: 5 Time Management Tips I Can't Live Without" by Alexa von Tobel, www.businessinsider.com. September 11, 2013.

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• That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.

  Michael Arrington

  Jobs, Real, Black And White

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• American author Mark Twain, while viewed as liberal and non-judgmental, did at times demonstrate both these characteristics. While his reasons for detesting the Christian faith are unclear, they seem to have been profound and deep-rooted. Having lambasted the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in a later quote he referred to the Book of Mormon as "chloroform in print."

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, Book, Profound

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• The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.

  Ronald Reagan

  School, Law, Culture

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• What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

  John Cleese

  Teaching, Followers, Absurd

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• The great companies get built by their founders

  Marc Andreessen

  Great Company, Company, Built

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• The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust.

  Mitt Romney

  Squares, Elimination, States

  Faith in America, delivered 6 December 2007, College Station, TX

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• There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution. No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith. For if he becomes President he will need the prayers of the people of all faiths.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Prayer, People

  Faith in America, delivered 6 December 2007, College Station, TX

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• The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

  Walter E. Williams

  Mean, Government, Citizens

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• What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

  Ed Crane

  Government, Limits, Danger

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• We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear that the courts can't make a law. The Constitution is expressly clear that that's a power reserved to Congress.

  Mike Huckabee

  Law, President, Different

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2015.

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• Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

  Joel Miller

  Government, Rivers, Today

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• Over the long term, the eclipse rate of great civilizations being overtaken is 100%. So you know how it's going to end. (Laughter) I'm more optimistic about the staying power of what's good in this country. But just because you have a wonderful spouse doesn't mean you should treat her badly. You have the feeling that some of the old virtues [that made this country great] are lessening. But there's so much good and so much strength left that I would not expect this country to suddenly founder.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Laughter, Optimistic

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• It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind

  Gore Vidal

  Running, Country, Blow

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• The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

  Molly Ivins

  Results

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