Institutions Quotes

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.

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 between a man and a woman.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

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 it.

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

These terrorist actions, prepared in cold blood, against the people, the society and the institutions of the United States are unprecedented in history.

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

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 country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way.

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.