Foundations Quotes

323 quotes by 274 authors

I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed… — John Hancock
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits — Napoleon Bonaparte
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance… — Theodore Roosevelt
Itâ€™s a beautiful, distinctive art, and shoes are like the foundations. If the foundations arenâ€™t right, the building wonâ€™t stand upright, and if a womanâ€™s… — Jimmy Choo
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous… — Gifford Pinchot
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every… — John Hancock
Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built. — Henry Allen Ironside
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where… — Albert Einstein
When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we… — Christmas Humphreys
The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of… — Aurangzeb
I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces… — E F Schumacher
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the… — Karl Marx
But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many… — William E. Gladstone
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. — Stephen Jay Gould
When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking… — Louis C. K.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. — Havelock Ellis
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a… — Brian Eno
I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit,… — Tom Hiddleston

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