#foundations

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace. ↗

— Gifford Pinchot

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The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

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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

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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

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An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ↗

— Carl Jung

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law. ↗

— Iris Chang

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