Founded Quotes
637 quotes by 498 authors
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The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.
— Alexander Hamilton
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor…
— William Holmes McGuffey
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We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person 'to profess a belief or disbelief in…
— Hugo Black
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There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary…
— Daniel Bernoulli
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Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines…
— Hannes Alfven
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Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it…
— Grove Karl Gilbert
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Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against…
— Leigh Brackett
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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple…
— Barry Goldwater
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you…
— Seneca the Younger
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We will not fall, we will not fail; for our homes will be founded on Jesus Christ.
— Robert D. Hales
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The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was…
— William Lane Craig
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The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved…
— L. Harrison Matthews
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A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving…
— Humphry Davy
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This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.
— Ronald Reagan
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The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as…
— Catharine MacKinnon
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Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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