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America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. ↗

— David E. Price

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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

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I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that. ↗

— David R. Brower

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Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. ↗

— Ernest Istook

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But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ↗

— John Ruskin

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A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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