#institutions

I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#best #best way #cases #countries #i

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. ↗

— William Godwin

#employ #fail #government #hands #institutions

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large. ↗

— William Hamilton

#country #easily #evolve #institutions #large

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#induced #institutions #internationally #into #measure

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#civil liberty #employment #exclusive #guaranteed #his

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples. ↗

— Henri La Fontaine

#democratic #established #institutions #international #international institutions

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#brought #disgraceful #everything #institutions #irish

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#base #damage #decades #gop #higher

What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor and the acquisitiveness that is supposed to be realism are making us forget the origins of the greatness we lay claim to - power and wealth as secondary consequences of the progress of freedom, or, as Whitman would prefer, Democracy? ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#freedom #institutions #freedom

Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#action #america #care #challenges #congress