No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.
I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.
I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.
My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
I ran for Congress, just once.
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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