Quotes About Basis

His agony is the basis of the simplicity of our salvation.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

The good which proceeds from a false basis (and such a case can happen in times of upheaval) is a very real evil for the entire society. It encourages the factious, not in this respect, that they search for the good, but rather because the deceitful appeal of that good delivers over to them virtuous men and makes them their accomplices.