Foundation Quotes

1787 Foundation quotes by 1279 unique authors

People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of… — Douglas MacArthur
Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country. — George Washington
The foundation of acting is the reality of doing. — Sanford Meisner
The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation… — James Madison
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective — James Madison
Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it… — John Quincy Adams
Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share,… — Samuel Gompers
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural… — Carl Jung
An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its… — Mark Van Doren
The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom. — Hannah Arendt
A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some. — Dwight Macdonald
There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement… — Ronald Reagan
An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist. — Sol LeWitt
To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge. — Grace Hopper
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family. — Morrie Schwartz
The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of… — Robert A. Heinlein
On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too… — Emanuel Lasker
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position — Anatoly Karpov
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and… — Jane Jacobs
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on… — Leon Krier
School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries. — Laurie Halse Anderson
Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of… — William Graham Sumner
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of… — William Graham Sumner
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only… — Anthony Kennedy
Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy. — Elena Kagan

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