Our Institutions Quotes
55 quotes by 51 authors
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We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the…
— Martin Van Buren
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To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just…
— Ronald Reagan
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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
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They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our…
— Chester Middlebrook Pierce
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It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government,…
— James Dobson
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Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to…
— James C. Collins
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Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and…
— Neil Patrick Harris
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... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have…
— Danny Glover
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That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling,…
— Walt Whitman
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If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.
— Peter Block
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To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate…
— Robert H. Jackson
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It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have…
— Pat Robertson
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Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space.…
— Robert L. Geddes
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I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well…
— Sylvia Fraser
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Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for…
— Maria Cantwell
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Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering…
— Carl Bernstein
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Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as…
— Charles Evans Hughes
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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having…
— George McGovern
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