It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions
Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved to Europe and became a culture, and it moved to America and became a business! We've left the experience long behind.
There exists no more democratic institution than the market
The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.
The United Nations is actually a mid-20th century institution and much weaker than it was when it was originally created, because governments themselves are less capable of implementing the kind of promises or programs that they have put forward.
Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.
Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy men. But government is an institution whereby the people who have the greatest drive to get power over their fellow men, get in a position of controlling them. Look at the record of government. Where are these philosopher kings that Plato supposedly was trying to develop?
The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.
If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.
Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.
We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.
It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.
Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them. Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians. Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'.
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility
You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated.
Dr. Ben Carson is a first-class human being and citizen. He is exactly the kind of person that you could trust running any government institution. You would trust him to babysit your kids. He's just an admirable human being.