Founded Quotes
637 Founded quotes by 498 unique authors
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
— William Hazlitt
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Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.
— Ronald Reagan
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
— Abraham Lincoln
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A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded…
— Unknown Author
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The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott…
— Cesar Chavez
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[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to…
— Tony Blair
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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
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Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the…
— David Hume
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
— Baruch Spinoza
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Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.
— Bill Gates
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To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation.…
— Judith Orloff
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
— Moliere
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Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the…
— Fisher Ames
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This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
— Clarence Thomas
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Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by…
— Claude Bernard
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Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.
— Lewis Thomas
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The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams…
— Lord Kelvin
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I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded…
— Frederick The Great
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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,…
— Humphry Davy
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All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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