And that was how one of America's founding fathers,Benjamin Franklin, came into public life.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Yet other voices within the tradition--Plato Machiavelli Rousseau come to mind -believed that regimes can be self-consciously founded through deliberate acts of great statesmen or founding fathers as we might call them.

但传统中的其它声音，像柏拉图,马奇亚维利，鲁索却相信,政体可以透过自我意识建立,藉由伟大政治家的谨慎举动,我们也称这些人为国父。

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Franklin was never elected president, but was one of the Founding Fathers.

VOA: special.2010.11.12

Jefferson was one of the most influential of the nation's Founding Fathers.

VOA: special.2010.11.12

Montazeri was one of the founding fathers of the Islamic Republic and remained a top arbiter of Shi'ite law.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

"When I bought this house I thought I would like to be like the Founding Fathers.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

But Europe is based on what Europe calls 'common values.' And the common values were established after the war by the founding fathers on Europe on the 'never again."

VOA: standard.2010.04.10