“ The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. ”
- Lee Iacocca- Copy
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“ We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. ”
- William Orville Douglas- Copy
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“ He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps. ”
- Henry Graff- Copy
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“ If I were objective or if you were objective or if anyone was, he would have to be put away somewhere in an institution because he'd be some sort of vegetable. ”
- David Brinkley- Copy
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“ A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution (the University of Virginia). ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society. ”
- David Friedman- Copy
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“ The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. ”
- William Ralph Inge- Copy
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“ This is particularly important now that the adoption of a new Iraqi constitution and the organization of elections under Resolution 1546 of the UN Security Council are on the agenda. ”
- Vladimir Putin- Copy
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“ Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service. ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
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“ The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit. ”
- John L. Lewis- Copy
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“ We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent. ”
- Robert Welch- Copy
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“ Our results demonstrate solid progress in our next-generation businesses. I am pleased that Nortel can now move from this phase of stabilization with the foundation we've built over the last 19 months. ”
- Bill Owens- Copy
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“ The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that your ideas will upset. ”
- Anthony J. D’Angelo- Copy
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“ The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ Today, music heralds… the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. ”
- Jacques Attali- Copy
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“ The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
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“ Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. ”
- Channing Pollock- Copy
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“ If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it. ”
- Art Buchwald- Copy
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“ Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. ”
- Herbert Marcuse- Copy
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“ One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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