Institutions Quotes

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Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up. — Les Dawson
I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the… — Henry David Thoreau
Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted,… — John Peter Altgeld
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions… — Alan Barth
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set… — Thomas Jefferson
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the… — James Bovard
Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence. — Alexander Hamilton
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately… — Alexis de Tocqueville
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
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...… — John Stuart Mill
We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions;… — Muhammad Yunus
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit… — Charles Babbage
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution… — Abraham Lincoln
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.… — Abraham Lincoln
The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences… — James Madison
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in… — Abraham Lincoln
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity… — John Quincy Adams

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