I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.
Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.