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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness. — Gary Zukav
The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to… — Sean MacBride
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. — William Blackstone
The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue… — James Bovard
Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion. War shall… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that… — Ravi Zacharias
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute… — Werner Heisenberg
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve'… — Ayn Rand
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire. — Joseph Sobran
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely… — Thomas Jefferson
Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling.… — Thomas Sowell
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit… — Harry S. Truman
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical… — David Lack
We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time… — Ronald Fisher
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,… — Max Born
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude… — Herbert Spencer
It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence… — Albert Einstein
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the… — Immanuel Kant
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept… — Robert Andrews Millikan
There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered… — Carl Sagan
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of… — Linus Pauling
On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he… — Arthur Eddington

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