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Adversity is the foundation of virtue

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object

Thomas Jefferson

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

David Brinkley

Good order is the foundation of all good things.

Edmund Burke

Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.

William J. H. Boetcker

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power not longer susceptible of any definition

Thomas Jefferson

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

James Talent

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

Jim Bunning

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

Brian Tracy

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

Jane Austen

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation

Jeremy Bentham

Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.

Samuel Gompers

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

Tenzin Gyatso

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics

Albert Schweitzer

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end

Michel de Montaigne

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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