Top Fathers Quotes
There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
David O. McKay
Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
Herbert Kaufman
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
Hugo Black
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus
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Thomas B. Macaulay 
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Charles A. Beard 
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Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
Joseph Sobran 
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater
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It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.
Meg Tilly
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We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.
Robert Welch
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford
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Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.
Reynolds Price
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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
Garet Garrett
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Miguel De Cervantes
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