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The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government trough. His father, Fred Trump, leveraged government housing programs into a construction business; the empire was founded on public money.

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.

The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed.

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.