Institutions Quotes

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These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . . very instructive proofs… — James Madison
If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard… — Alexander Hamilton
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and… — James Monroe
How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children… — Joseph Story
Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions — Alexis de Tocqueville
In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its… — Ronald Reagan
All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government.… — Ronald Reagan
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to… — Thomas Jefferson
But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the… — James Madison
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been… — George Monbiot
No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency… — Richard M. Nixon
Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a… — Ferdinand de Saussure
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the… — Roland Barthes
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for… — Mark Twain
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works… — D. H. Lawrence
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their… — Henry David Thoreau
The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those… — Henry David Thoreau
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real… — James A. Baldwin
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the… — Lewis H. Lapham

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