Best Our Institutions Quotes
55 Our Institutions quotes by 47 unique authors
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The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of every one. It is indispensable to the safety and…
— Zachary Taylor
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at…
— Walter Bagehot
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We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact, the US is…
— Dalia Mogahed
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The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself.…
— Otto Scharmer
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Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization…
— Thomas Homer-Dixon
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The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.
— Albert Goodwill Spalding
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I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels…
— Saul Bellow
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Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
— William Ralph Inge
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[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States…
— James A. Garfield
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Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt…
— Pratibha Patil
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This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
— Abraham Lincoln
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in…
— Ralph Adams Cram
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It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.
— Harry S. Truman
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
— Charles Darwin
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because,…
— Bill Hicks
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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Give us a world where half our homes are run by men, and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit…
— Unknown Author
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Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul…
— Calvin Coolidge
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