“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration” MenFirstsMeanLongImportantEndsReasonGovernmentLife IsIndividualSocialViewsKnownPrinciplesWiseMankindSecurityOughtBlessingHighestWeaknessInstitutionsObservationGenerousHatsPatrioticFoundersInquirySocial LifeVeneration Author:Joseph Warren
“I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'” YearsFirstsWantedAmericaHousePartyCompanyMarriedDaughterJewFirmPatrioticFoundersMillionaireClerksAmerican PatrioticHouse Of CommonsGrand Daughter Author:Denis Fahey
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.” InspirationalFirstsHumansCivilizationStonesAngerInsultFoundersInsultingPsychoanalysisComeback Author:Sigmund Freud
“If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!” IfsFirstsBelieveSaidWould BeAnimalDogCryMajorsNobleLondonBritainBelieve In MeFoundersTowersPopeVesselGreat BritainSubmarinesWestminster Author:Pierre Daninos
“The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.” FirstsMeanFatherMastersFoundersEloquenceChaucer Author:William Caxton