Foundation Quotes - Page 23

• The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

  Hannah Arendt

  Revolution, Rebellion, Ends

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “On Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

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• A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

  Dwight Macdonald

  People, Want, Amount

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• There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

  Ronald Reagan

  Honesty, Real, Rocks

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Bricks, Architect

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

  Morrie Schwartz

  People, May, Today

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• The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Police, Stronger

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too thin, too puny for such an end. Reti's explanations, wherever they are concerned with an analysis which covers a few moves, are correct and praiseworthy. But when he abandons the foundations of analysis in order to draw too bold, too general a conclusion, his arguments prove to be mistaken.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Moving, Order, Games

  Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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• All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.

  Leon Krier

  Law, Cities, Space

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.439, Island Press

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• Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

  William Graham Sumner

  Land, United States, Gains

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

  William Graham Sumner

  Growing Up, Land, Pioneers

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Sight, Law, Facts

  "Man in the Middle" by Richard C. Reuben, California Lawyer: p. 35, October 1992.

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• Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

  Elena Kagan

  Rights, Law, Democracy

  Speech on Being Nominated to Serve as U.S. Supreme Court Justice, delivered 10 May 2010

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• Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.

  Dave McKean

  Strong, Pride, Use

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• For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

  David Copperfield

  Grows, Knows

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• The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away

  Colonel Sanders

  Dream, Way, Shifting Sand

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• My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

  David Mamet

  Educational, Reading, Library

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• If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.

  Rod Dixon

  Running, Thinking, Race

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• I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Strong, Pregnancy

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• It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening.

  Jerry Falwell

  Spiritual, Religious, Humor

  "Farewell Falwell" by Tim Footman, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2007.

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• Liberals don't care. Their approach is to rip out society's foundations without asking if they serve any purpose. Why do we have immigration laws? What's with these borders? Why do we have the institution of marriage, anyway? What do we need standardized tests for? Hey, I like Keith Richards - why not make heroin legal? Let's take a sledgehammer to all these load-bearing walls and just see what happens!

  Ann Coulter

  Wall, Rip, Law

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• The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama's proudly transformational New Foundation agenda. Their logic is impeccable: Only the most blinkered intellectual could be attempting to introduce social democracy to America precisely when the world's foremost exemplar of that model - Europe - is in chaotic meltdown.

  Charles Krauthammer

  America, Europe, Political

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• The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead religious activity performed week after week by an evangelical Christian with the intent of impressing his God. It's all religious performance, and God isn't impressed by our performance. What impresses Him is faith.

  Steve McVey

  Christian, Religious, Fire

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• I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Responsibility, Helping Others

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• Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

  Hafez

  Greatness, Men, Acting

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• Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

  Plato

  Self, Contentment, Littles

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