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- [T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution]… — Thomas Jefferson
- I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees… — Keri Hulme
- Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your… — B. C. Forbes
- I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering. — Mary Crosby
- Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said… — Cornelia Funke
- Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water,… — P.G. Wodehouse
- Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme… — Terry Eagleton
- God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any… — William S. Burroughs
- Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and… — Christopher Hitchens
- War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which… — Robert Graves