Institutions Quotes

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Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but… — Jeff Sessions
Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union… — Mike Rounds
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they… — Ezra Stiles
The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world… — Max Baucus
Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed. — Phil Donahue
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but… — Alexis de Tocqueville
To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty. — Stephen Breyer
If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid… — Charles Inglis
Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals. — Derek Bok
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but when it comes… — Swami Vivekananda
Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't… — Vicki Donlan
If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an… — Elbert Hubbard
The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are man-made and are… — Frederic Bastiat
Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals’ increasing indifference to it, — Mike Huckabee
The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had episodes of glory… — Mark Helprin
If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because… — Abdurrahman Wahid
The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions. — Sheryl Sandberg
Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we are now awash… — Cass Sunstein
France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions. — Jacques Chirac
Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning. — Tim Holden
Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are. — Chuck Hagel
I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first… — U Thant

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