Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
Institutions Quotes
War challenges virtually every other institution of society-the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.
Religion is a superstition that originated in man’s mental ability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an organized institution that has always been a stumbling block to progress.
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
Never wage war on religion, nor upon seemingly holy institutions, for this thing has too great a force upon the minds of fools.
If, when the chips are down, the world’s most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.
I consider Ross Perot to be America’s political flasher. When he feels he’s not being paid enough attention to, he opens his raincoat and attacks some new institution.
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 the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They […]
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
