Free Institutions Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
— Chester A. Arthur
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a…
— George C. Marshall
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Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.
— Millard Fillmore
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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor…
— William Holmes McGuffey
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Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the…
— William Borah
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If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of…
— Richard M. Nixon
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We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a…
— Lyman Abbott
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The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is…
— Grover Cleveland
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The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a…
— Herbert Croly
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I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because…
— Abraham Lincoln
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To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the United States, the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.
— Abraham Lincoln
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There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
— Daniel Webster
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Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue…
— Noam Chomsky
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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the…
— Albert Bushnell Hart
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To our wise and free institutions it is to be attributed that while other nations have achieved glory at the price of the suffering, distress,…
— James K Polk
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