Quotes on Founding Fathers Democracy

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Discipline is the soul of an army.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

A government of laws, and not of men.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Well done is better than well said.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.