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I think that people have short memories, and I think that they believe that our forbearers in the past were these Founding Fathers who were ideal and who were - would never have stooped to dirty tricks.

— Joseph Cummins

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Rush Limbaugh

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

— Rick Santelli

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

— Bryan Adams

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

— Jon Meacham

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

— Michael Beschloss

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

— Jack Youngblood

I think the Founding Fathers probably knew what they were doing in setting up the government to have a healthy tension between the executive branch and the legislative branch.

— Gina Raimondo

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.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

✗Opposing Perspectives

We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani