Here are some of my favorite Founding Father Quotes from the Revolutionary War:"Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude." - George Washington - http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/george-washington-quotes-1.html"And forasmuch as ingratitude is one of the most odious of vices, let me not be unmindful gratefully to acknowledge the favours I receive from Heaven! For all Thy innumerable benefits; For life and reason, and the use of speech, for health and joy and every pleasant hour, my Good God, I thank Thee." - Ben Franklin - http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/ben-franklin-quotes-1.html"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy." - Thomas Jefferson - http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/thomas-jefferson-quotes-1.html"The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished." - Thomas Paine - http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/thomas-paine-quotes-1.html"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams - http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/john-adams-quotes-1.html"It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution." - James Madison - http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/james-madison-quotes-3.html"Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage it in others." - Patrick Henry - http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/patrick-henry-quotes.html"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." - Samuel Adams - http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/samuel-adams-quotes-1.html