Wendell Willkie - Foundations

Famous quotes containing the word foundations:

“Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth’s foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)