“Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe ... The universal values which are in force in Europe, and which are fundamental values of Christianity, will lose vigor with the entry of a large Islamic country such as Turkey.” CountryValuesForceLosesChristianityEuropeUniversalFundamentalsIslamicTurkeysEntryVigor Author:Herman Van Rompuy
“On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.” WayIdeasCountryLightNaturalSimplePowerfulCitiesVirtueIgnoranceCommunicationAmbitionFundamentalsNoiseLimitationInnocenceAssociationContrastCentreHostileWorldliness Book:The Country and the City Source: The Country and the City
“The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.... There should be, therefore, great resistance to ... redefining the category of rights deemed to be fundamental. Otherwise, the Judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority.” ShouldLittlesMadeCountryLawLanguageDealsRightsDesignJudgingAuthorityRootsConstitutionFundamentalsCourtResistanceVulnerableCategoriesJudiciaryConstitutional LawRedefining Author:Byron White
“There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills through all levels is of fundamental importance to both companies and countries.” CountryLevelsCompanyExampleCreationSourceSkillsImportanceFundamentalsStrategyEfficiencyAdoptingCompetitivenessOpen Source Author:Mark Shuttleworth
“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks” BelieveCountrySoundCommonConditionsSonFundamentalsMy SonPurchasing Author:John D. Rockefeller
“The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.” CountrySoundBasesFundamentalsProductionsCommodityDistributionProsperous Author:Herbert Hoover