Synonyms for forefathers
fore·fa·thers

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1. List of paraphrases for "forefathers":

   ancestors, forebears, great-grandfathers, predecessors, fathers, forbears

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1. Justice Robert H. Jackson:

   Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.

2. Jamela Dunbar:

   Independence Day in America was July 4, 1776. Blood, sweat. and tears. Negros remember the oppression of their forefathers. And the condemnation of slavery. The memories are bittersweet to this day. When you look back at history. The abuse, affliction, and demeanor of our fore parents' rights, invaded. The pain is still sharp. And fresh in our memories like yesterday. And it lives on in our heart, like Cancer without a cure.

3. Theodore Roosevelt:

   Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.

4. The Hill reported.Jon Voight:

   This job is not easy, for he's battling the left and their absurd words of destruction, our nation has been built on the solid ground from our forefathers, and there is a moral code of duty that has been passed on from President Lincoln.

5. Burton:

   Every man thinks with himself, I am well, I am wise, and laughs at others; and ?tis a general fault amongst them all, that which our forefathers approved?diet, apparel, humours, customs, manners?we deride and reject in our time as absurd.