We shall never sheath the sword which we have not lightly drawn until Belgium recovers in full measure all and more than all that she has sacrificed, until France is adequatelyassured against the menace of aggression, until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unassailable foundation and until the military domination of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed.

-Asquith
  Speech at the Guildhall, London, 9 Nov.

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  New Atlantis (published posthumously,1627).

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Of Solomon's House, the centre of Bacon's scientific utopia. New Atlantis (published1627).

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms102:25.

Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: hethat believeth shall not make haste.Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 28:16^17.

Good order is the foundation of all good things.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
   Address to the nation on Israel's invasion of Egypt, 20 Feb.

Il faut que la critique attaque la forme, jamais le fond de vos ide¤  es, de vos phrases. Arrangez-vous. A critic must attack the form, never the foundation of your ideas and phrases. See to it.

-Lautre¤  amont, Comte de properly Isidore Ducasse
  Poe¤  sies, pt.1.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to producethe reverse of happiness.

-Mill,John Stuart
  Utilitarianism, ch.2.

The Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ, her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the word; From heaven he came and sought her To be his holy bride, With his own blood he bought her. And for her life he died.

-Stone, Samuel John
  Lyra fidelium.

These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities and eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people: of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive, and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Gulliver'sTravels,'A Voyage to Laputa, etc.'ch.6.