Foundations Quotes

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He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing. — Jim Hill
When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in… — David Rudolf
Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens,… — William J. Clinton
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are… — Wendell Phillips
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle… — Alan Greenspan
Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that… — Colin Fletcher
We have always understood that the foundations of the family, as an eternal unit, were laid even before this earth was created! Society without basic… — Spencer W. Kimball
The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past.… — Alan Turing
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends… — Woodrow Wilson
Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us… — Thomas S. Monson
A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form. — Jerome Bruner
The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid… — John Denham
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . .… — Alexander H. Stephens
Even theories must have foundations. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up… — John Maynard Keynes
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.… — Richard Rorty
I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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