Judson Welliver Quotes

The Declaration of Independence is no part of the Constitution or of any other book.

If you seek our Founding Fathers monument, just look around you.

I'm so proud of myself. I thought, 'I've got to learn about American history.' I literally took two months off and watched every documentary known to man. I really didn't know Benjamin Franklin was so cool.

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.

Interest in the Founders has risen and fallen over time, as has admiration for them and their accomplishments.

Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

America started out as an invention society.

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual.

Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed he Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits . . . noble spirits before God.

The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.

Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

… the most dramatic moment in the early politics of the Union.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom & Father of the University of Virginia

Although The Declaration of Independence is not, like The Constitution, the law of the land, it is certainly the spirit of the land.

The author of our constitution, James Madison, … would be aghast

The Constitution did not even go into effect when Washington was inaugurated first President. The wisest men knew that it was only a figment of the imagination then.

Our Founding Fathers, regular men who did great things together, established this system along with other regular men.