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The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Edith Sitwell

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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

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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

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

— Charles Sumner

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The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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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

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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

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. ↗

— Simone Weil

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