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There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.
Dick Durbin

Respect, Legal, Human

Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The democracy we founded with the Orange Revolution has to be an example for other post-Soviet states.
Yulia Tymoshenko

Democracy, Revolution, Energy

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Matt Blunt

Education, Society, Knowledge

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.
Preston Manning

Country, Pursuit, Canada

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.
Trent Lott

Freedom, May, Free

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
Henry Bolingbroke

Great, Patriotism, Virtue

The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
Ed Rollins

Hate, Become, Republican

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

Time, Country, Away

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.
Franjo Tudjman

War, Emotional, Dead

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Philip Schaff

Religion, Book, Words

In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party.
Christine O'Donnell

Power, Country, Order

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
David Mallet

Strong, True, Virtue

There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent?
Isabel Wilkerson

Great, Parents, Talent

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

Happiness, True, Fame

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.
Melvin Burgess

Time, Teacher, Job

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

Until, Company, Chemical

All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
John Joly

Great, Universe, Results

We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.
Lorenzo Snow

Love, Men, Show

I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.
Donny Most

Started, Belief, Wondering

In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.
Annette Lu

Peace, Democracy, Union

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.
Harlan Stone

Nature, Equality, Free

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
Cecile Richards

Control, Birth, Illegal

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

Forward, Past, Before

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
Daniel Bernoulli

Knowledge, Philosophy, Necessary

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.
Charlotte Mary Yonge

History, Made, Fair

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
Hal Clement

Science, Started, Stay

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.
Aldrich Ames

Real, Understand, Problems

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