Foundation commonly refers to:
- Foundation (engineering), the lowest and supporting layer of a structure
- Foundation (non-profit), a type of organization
Foundation may also refer to:
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Famous quotes containing the word foundation:
“Laws remain in credit not because they are just, but because they are laws. That is the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“The Bermudas are said to have been discovered by a Spanish ship of that name which was wrecked on them.... Yet at the very first planting of them with some sixty persons, in 1612, the first governor, the same year, “built and laid the foundation of eight or nine forts.” To be ready, one would say, to entertain the first ship’s company that should be next shipwrecked on to them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)