#founded

America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong. ↗

— Brad Pitt

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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

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

— Cecile Richards

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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#better #business #founded #than

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

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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

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A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#injustice #kingdom #lasts #never

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery. ↗

— William H. Seward

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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country. ↗

— Al Sharpton

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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ↗

— Stendhal

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