Institutions

Famous quotes containing the word institutions:

“Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.”
—Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886)

“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.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The whole history of civilisation is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)