There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage is. Marriage is a… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Legitimacy involves the capacity of a political system to engender and maintain the belief that existing political institutions are the most appropriate… — Seymour Martin Lipset Copy Share Image
Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is… — Dani Rodrik Copy Share Image
While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power;… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“The political institutions of a society are a key determinant of the outcome of this game. They are the rules that govern… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must… — James Madison Copy Share Image
