Famous quotes containing the words eldest, element and/or founded:
“Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“All government—indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)