#institutions

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aim #being #citizen #freedom #freeman

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#come #flow #freedoms #fundamentally #institutions

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#concentrated #fact #find #fundamental #ideas

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. ↗

— David Frum

#conservatism #constrained #country #desperate #economic

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. ↗

— Al Spalding

#democratic #game #genius #institutions #our

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #carried #civil #considerable #founded

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

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#away #best #call #growing #institutions