Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

His was the singular destiny and merit, of leading the armies of his country successfully through an arduous war, for the establishment of its independence; of conducting its councils through the birth of a government, new in its forms and principles, until it had settled down into a quite and orderly train; and of scrupulously obeying the laws through the whole of his career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example.

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.