Founded Quotes

637 Founded quotes by 498 unique authors

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. — Baron de Montesquieu
If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people. — William Greider
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free… — William H. Seward
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule… — Dick Durbin
Remember, your worth is founded in Jesus Christ. — Warren W. Wiersbe
So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles,… — Charlton Heston
Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are… — Pope Leo XIII
Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice. — Witold Rybczynski
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed… — George Washington
...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation. — Theodore Annemann
If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded… — Dalai Lama
Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and… — Harry S. Truman
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice. — Abraham Lincoln
Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by… — Leo Tolstoy
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. — Hal Clement
That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears. — Anthony Lane
Founded on faith in God, the United States has been blessed as no other nation. — Jeremiah Denton
Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth and indicts us… — Peter Ho Davies
We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near… — George Sarton
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. — Alice Walker
At the moment, our society's notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it's time for a third metric, beyond… — Arianna Huffington
If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes.… — Zhuangzi
The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion. — R.J. Rushdoony
Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution… — James Otis
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. — Madame de Stael

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