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• Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being also. This fact can neither be shaken nor confirmed by any historical discovery. It is the solid foundation of Christianity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  Albert Schweitzer (2005). “Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings”

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• Man was destined for society. His morality therefore was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this. This sense is as much a part of his nature as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation of morality... The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Men, Psychology

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

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• Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Religious, Fall, Liberty

  Alexander Hamilton (1842). “The Official and Other Papers ...”, p.48

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• Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Giving, Justice

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• The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Discrepancies Between, Practice, Dry

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• Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers would become nothing more than wishes. But while God's sovereignty, along with his wisdom and love, is the foundation of our trust in Him, prayer is the expression of that trust.

  Jerry Bridges

  Prayer, Love Is, Expression

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.105, Tyndale House

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• The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no shade of color, no mere misfortune of circumstances, can annul that birthright charter, which God has bequeathed to every being upon whom he has stamped his own image, by making him a free moral agent, and that he who robs his fellow man of this tramples upon right, subverts justice, outrages humanity, unsettles the foundation of human safety, and sacrilegiously assumes the prerogative of God.

  Theodore Dwight Weld

  Men, Color, Law

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• I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Knowledge, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.251, Cambridge University Press

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• How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Loyalty, Art, Integrity

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.55, Knickerbocker Classics

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• With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in August of that year. A number of considerations, of course, entered into my decision to introduce the bill, growing from my own experience as a Rhodes scholar and the experiences our government had had with the first Word War debts, [Herbert] Hoover's efforts in establishing the Belgian-American Education Foundation after World War I, [and] the Boxer Rebellion indemnity.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Educational, Government

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• In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspiration, Men, Ignorant

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• Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Real, Touchy

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• If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by well prepared, well supported teachers who can help prepare them for success in college, life and careers.

  Randi Weingarten

  Teacher, Educational, Kids

  "Governors announce cross-state education guidelines for U.S. students" by Sally Holland, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

  Helen Keller

  Educational, Names, Smell

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• The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

  George William Curtis

  Book, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Sports, Lurking

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• Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Self, Sobriety

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• The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Godly, Safety, Presidential

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• Behold Jesus Christ crucified, Who is the only foundation of our hope; He is our Mediator and Advocate; the victim and sacrifice for our sins. He is goodness and patience itself; His mercy is moved by the tears of sinners, and He never refuses pardon and grace to those who ask it with a truly contrite and humbled heart.

  Carlo Borromeo

  Jesus, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Let me remind you that you have a two-fold task to perform. With the force of arms and at the cost of your blood you will have to win liberty. Then, when India is free, you will have to organize the permanent army of Free India, whose task it will be to preserve our liberty for all time. We must build up our national defense on such an unshakable foundation that never again in our history shall we lose our freedom.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Army, Winning, Blood

  Subhas Chandra Bose (2007). “Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945”

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• Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Important, Genius, Tenacity

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• We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must build character in peacetime because there is no time in war. Character is the most important quality you can find in any person, but especially in a soldier. It is the foundation that will get anybody through anything he may encounter. Reputation is what people think you are; character is what you are- that is the staying power.

  Glen E. Morrell

  War, Character, Army

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• The trust, confidence, and support given to us by our chain of command, and the tenacity of the great noncommissioned officers of the past, have laid the foundation and developed our quality corporals and sergeants.

  Julius W. Gates

  Army, Past, Support

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• Our national defense will be consolidated and no imperialist will be allowed to invade our territory again. Our People's armed forces must be maintained and developed with the brave and steeled People's Liberation Army as their foundation. We will have not only a powerful army but also a powerful air force and a powerful navy.

  Mao Zedong

  Powerful, Army, Air

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Beauty, Everyday, World

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