#foundations

We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money. ↗

— Tom Kite

#around #charities #children #decided #event

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

#does #express #feel #foundations #keep

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

— Martin H. Fischer

#doctors #education #floors #foundations #got

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

#culture #education #ethics #foundations #justice

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#foundations #liberty #made #must #peace

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. ↗

— Paul Getty

#built #foundations #great #great american #period

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#government #hope #laying #may #outlast

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#arms #cannot #composite #every #follow

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years. ↗

— David Miliband

#big #britain #build #cultural #democratic

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#foundations #fundamentalists #i #our #question