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«Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
achieved, collapse, collapsed, collapses, collapsing, institutions, layout, layouts, perfection, planned, point, Point of, such institutions, the point
«Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.»
Author: Chester A. Arthur
(Lawyer, President, Statesman)
| Keywords:
fabrics, free, institutions, remains, such institutions, unshaken
«I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do more for the union, but I wish to do more; for the destruction of the union would be the destruction of all the States. A stab in the heart is worse then a cut in a limb, for this may be healed.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
aggression, aggressions, defend, destruction, endanger, endangered, endangers, institutions, lay, lay down, the union, threatened, union
«In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
Chiefs, infancy, institutions, societies
«On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
diffusion, institutions, perpetuation, preservation
«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.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Education,
Learning,
Liberty,
Security
| Keywords:
craftiest, crafty, encroachment, encroachments, favorite, free people, institutions
«It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Genius,
Politics
| Keywords:
American Constitution, ample, enduring, fertility, institutions, invention, political institutions, rooted, shelter, The Genius
«I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
institutions, purely, sooner or later
«In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
cold, corruption, criticism, example, excluded, excludes, excluding, for example, innocent, innocents, innocent of, institutions, in all, mushroom, mushrooms, Open society, senates, societies, such institutions, wind
«Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.»
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