Institutions Quotes

Thought refuses to be stationary, institutions refuse to change and war is the consequence.

Sure enough, America is a great, and in many respects a blessed and hopeful phenomenon. Sure enough, these hardy millions of Anglo-Saxon men prove themselves worthy of their genealogy… But as to a Model Republic, or a model anything, the wise among themselves know too well that there is nothing to be said… Their constitution, […]

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

Republican institutions cannot exist for long where there is enforced labor; or for that matter where there is enforced idleness.