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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
Government
People
Weary
Country
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
Shall
Institutions
Exercise
Existing
Overthrow
Amending
Revolutionary
Whenever
Inhabit
Who
Grow
Right
Belongs
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin
Death
Together
Church
Own
Separation
Enough
State
Church And State
Favor
Both
Idea
Institutions
Up
Screw
Them
Us
Certain
Two
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
Work
Political
Find
About
Fact
Concentrated
Ideas
Institutions
Most
Surprised
Left
Survive
Where
Order
To Survive
Should
Therefore
Fundamental
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine
Me
Power
National
Christian
Profit
Monopolize
Other
Churches
Enslave
Inventions
Institutions
Terrify
Up
National Institutions
Than
Human
Whether
Turkish
Mankind
Appear
Set
Jewish
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
Great
Nature
Our
Laws
Misery
Sin
Institutions
Caused
Poor
When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
John Trudell
Truth
Art
Culture
People
Society
Tell
Must
Rely
Longer
Come
Institutions
Where
Them
Lives
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
Bella Abzug
Politics
Nature
Change
Women
Vision
Past
Institutions
Policies
Women Are
Craft
Them
Us
Let Us
Bringing
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Angela Davis
Education
People
Higher Education
Prison
More
Color
Higher
Institutions
Likely
Than
Poor
Poor People
Much
Found
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
John Stuart Mill
Political
Moral
Previous
Merely
Institutions
Opinions
Foreign
Affected
Revolutions
Established
Subversion
Originate
Conquest
Consequence
America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.
Richard Lamm
Political Campaign
Needs
Political
Denial
Problems
Country
Our
System
Some
Crusade
Institutions
Renew
Another
Does
Real
Campaign
Reform
America
Political System
Real Problems
Avoidance
Based
Need
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
Robert Jackson
Patriotism
Will
Free
Believe
Our
Minds
Voluntary
Institutions
Make
Patriotic
Estimate
Ceremonies
Appeal
Flourish
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.
Alan Dershowitz
Government
Balance
School
Important
Other
State
System
Must
Religious
Participate
Check
Checking
Checks
Checks And Balances
Institutions
Academy
Executive
Well
Learn
Balances
Judicial
Branches
Legislative
Include
Each
Media
Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.
Mike Pence
Life
Government
Confidence
Negative
Our
Attacks
Institutions
Personal
Place
Public
Public Life
Serve
Basic
We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.
Atifete Jahjaga
Government
Time
Needs
Democracy
Dignity
People
Treat
Remember
Debate
Responding
Must
Citizens
Given
Deliver
Develop
Institutions
Fairly
Access
Mature
Information
While
Informed
Works
Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
Betsy DeVos
Education
Good
Quality
Commitment
Made
Nation
Every
Think
Our
Paradigm
Must
Individual
Investments
Institutions
Quality Education
Buildings
Shift
Provide
Accordingly
Child
Common
Children
Common Good
Public
Serve
Funding
I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
Che Guevara
Me
Face
Earth
Married
Married Couple
Worthy
Would
Given
More
Wipe
Bourgeois
Employed
Institutions
Couple
Than
Whale
Common
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Future
Government
Determination
Men
Our
Give
Only
Economic
Institutions
Democratic
Employment
Idle
Very
Depends
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.
Henry Waxman
Veterans Day
History
Respect
Veterans
Sanctity
Pay
Military
Our
Those
Monuments
Importance
Institutions
Who
Fought
Utmost
Utmost Importance
Preserve
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Thorstein Veblen
Service
Nationalism
Bend
Distress
Born
Spirit
Never
Sin
Conceived
Institutions
Human
Iniquity
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
Abbie Hoffman
Evil
Sister
Immoral
Brother
Steal
Empire
Institutions
Pig
Equally
Pillars
There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
Cornel West
You
Change
Individual
Simply
Institutions
Make
Difference
Being
Social
Social Change
Organizations
Actions
Fundamental
Fundamental Difference
Interpersonal
Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?
Pratibha Patil
Faith
Blame
People
Own
Doubt
Others
Our
Everything
Unable
Ourselves
Responses
Find
Distrust
Give
Seems
Constructive
Tendency
Almost
Almost Everything
Institutions
Quick
Afford
Often
Amongst
Strengths
Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.
Shiv Nadar
Experience
Key
Giving
Our
Focused
Students
Global
Institutions
Alumni
Any
Growth
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
Alex Berenson
Financial
Rules
Recognize
About
Give
Institutions
Venture
Venture Capital
Accounting
Capital
Flexibility
Choose
Profits
The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
Anna Quindlen
Problem
Law
Opportunities
Opportunity
Revolution
Doors
Changed
Minds
Corporations
Evolved
Opened
Institutions
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Years
Did
Moved
Forward
Many
Last
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.
Arundhati Roy
Democracy
Free
Back
Market
Corporations
Out
Has-Been
Free Market
Taken
Vehicle
Longer
Institutions
Returned
Been
Us
Means
Meant
Workshop
Each
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