Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
Moliere

Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.
Elton Gallegly

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

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke

God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
Bob Riley

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
Leland Stanford

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
Terence

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Henrik Ibsen

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

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
Clarence Thomas

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
Rick Danko

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
George Washington

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
James Otis

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

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.
Rosanne Cash

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
William Greider

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.
Leo Baekeland

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.
Sydney Brenner

In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
Pat Robertson

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
Ezra Stiles