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Foundation Quotes

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

I. M. Pei (1983). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1983: Presented to Ieoh Ming Pei”

I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.34

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

Jerome S. BRUNER (2009). “The Process of Education, Revised Edition”, p.12, Harvard University Press

If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.

Charles Stanley (2002). “Success God's Way: Achieving True Contentment and Purpose”, p.17, Thomas Nelson

Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

Vandana Shiva (2014). “The Vandana Shiva Reader”, p.219, University Press of Kentucky

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

Speech on Christmas in 1793. Quoted in "Who said Gaddafi had to go?" by Hugh Roberts, London Review of Books, Volume 33 No. 22, pp. 8-18, November 17, 2011.