The first thing [in credit] is character ... before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.... A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom. I think that is the fundamental basis of business. J. P. Morgan
The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount...If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State. Harry S. Truman
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law. Aly Khan