Foundations Quotes

323 quotes by 277 authors

The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare… — Alexander Hamilton
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws. — William Blackstone
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated… — Thomas Jefferson
It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with… — Norman Dodd
A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power. — Kevin Carson
To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right. — Vidal Sassoon
Turkish-American relations are based on very strong foundations. Currently, we have a war in the region, which could not be prevented, unfortunately. We hope it… — Abdullah Gul
Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even… — John McCain
We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels)… — Desmond Tutu
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
To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge. — Grace Hopper
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
School libraries are the foundations of our culture â€“ 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
Liberals don't care. Their approach is to rip out society's foundations without asking if they serve any purpose. Why do we have immigration laws? What's… — Ann Coulter
Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family. — Gautama Buddha
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only… — John Quincy Adams
The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish… — Woodrow Wilson

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