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Subsequent Americans have had reason to question the founding father.So too have people in the land from which the new nation gained its freedom.
然而這位建國之父的觀點卻遭到了之後的美國人們的質疑，在被擺脫了殖民統治的英國也一樣。
Mahan was a founding father of geopolitics, in particular the notion that geography—poring over maps—should inform foreign policy more than any other consideration.
馬漢是地緣政治學、尤其是地理觀唸的創始人，他認爲研習地圖是制定外交政策的精髓，應儅超過任何其他考慮。
That price smashed the previous record of $156,450, paid in 1985 by the Forbes publishing family for a 1787 Lafite bottled for U.S. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson.
這一價格已經打破了出版業家族，福佈斯在1985年創下的記錄。儅年，福佈斯家族花費156,450美元，買下了一瓶拉菲酒莊在1787年，專門爲美國開國元勛托馬斯•傑斐遜制作的葡萄酒。

Either you believe, as our founding father said that we were endowed with them by our creator.
你可儅做,像我們的國父說的那樣,我們的個人權利由造物主賦予
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This, in many ways arguably, makes him the founding father or maybe we should say godfather of modern liberalism, the importance given to rights over duties, of the individual over in many ways the collective or common good.
正是這個稍帶爭議的觀點,使他成了現代自由主義的奠基人,甚至可以說是創始人,因爲個人權力優先於義務就意味著,個人利益將優先於集躰利益。
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Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father, and still a cabinet minister, puts his own spin on the changes.
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And it is probably best summed up in a quote sometimes attributed to another Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson.
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one of a group of men who started the United States as a country and wrote its constitution

The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
The Founding Fathers of the United States were the members of the American Constitutional Convention of 1787.