Founding Fathers’ Quotes You Should Know

We’re particularly fond of Benjamin Franklin’s quotes at the beginning of this video.

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Founder’s Quote Daily: Political Leaders

“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.”— Thomas Jefferson:  A Summary View of the Rights of British America

Founder’s Quote Daily: Commerce

“I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty."

—Thomas Jefferson

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Founder’s Quote Daily: Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms

"”When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, - who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia." --George Mason, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788.

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