| "The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth." »Edith Sitwell |
| "A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence." »Francis Jeffrey |
| "Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence." »Hebrew Proverb |
| "All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter." »Edmund Burke |
| "Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue." »John Dryden |
| "I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights." »Clarence Thomas |
| "Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American." »David Duchovny |
| "True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle." »Hugh Blair |
| "All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises." »Henry Clay |
| "The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
| "Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others." »Edward Abbey |
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