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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

Work, Power, Government

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

Life, Home, Beautiful

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.
William E. Gladstone

Freedom, Experience, Sympathy

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden

Love, True, End

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

Justice, Law, America

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Samuel Alexander

Experience, Both, Memories

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.
Henry Louis Gates

Men, History, Live

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

God, Truth, May

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Faith, Great, History

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Charles de Montesquieu

War, Empire, Maintain

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Belief, Blind, Disbelief

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.
Michael Polanyi

Same, Chemistry, Physics

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
Maimonides

Religion, Understand, Same

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
Felix Adler

Love, Family, School

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
Lech Walesa

Life, Working, Impossible

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
Barbara Jordan

Positive, Future, Reality

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.
Eliot Spitzer

Freedom, Nation, Idea

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

Truth, Long, Public

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.
Jim DeMint

Work, Family, Nature

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

Once, State, Longer

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

God, Rock, Down

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

Great, Men, Government

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Father, After, Sense

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
Kevin Mitnick

Jobs, Apple, Computing

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

Philosophy, America, Group

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.
Cat Cora

Humanity, After, Able

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
Steve Buyer

America, Veterans, Ideals

'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
Rainn Wilson

Life, Friends, Big

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.
Stockwell Day

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
Joe Baca

Freedom, Equality, Nation

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