Founded Quotes

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.