
“Our founding fathers wrote a constitution for a dream. We have given passports to their ideals.”
"The Shashi Tharoor column: The creation of India," 2001
Their use of language reflected their antipathy toward the domineering influence of empire and big business... If "We the People" are the sole subjects of the Constitution, why is it that we are ruled by large corporations and their largely indentured servants—the Republican and Democratic Parties... "We the People" have allowed these plutocratic forces to slowly siphon away our power.
Breaking Through Power (2016)
“Our founding fathers wrote a constitution for a dream. We have given passports to their ideals.”
"The Shashi Tharoor column: The creation of India," 2001
For the Equal Rights Amendment (10 August 1970).
Context: The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers — a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
Remarks about the Committee to Re-elect the President, as quoted in The New York Times (31 March 1974)
1970s
Green Party presidential candidacy speech (2000)
The War on Religion
LewRockwell.com
2003-12-30
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul148.html
2000s, 2001-2005
Source: Out Of The Crisis (1982), p. 99