Quotes about Institutions

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.