BYU I think had a philosophy of nameless, faceless athletes for the greater good of BYU which is fine. We all did our thing and we're grateful for it.
When a people have no sufficient value for, and attachment to, a representative constitution, they have next to no chance of retaining it.
I've never been tied to one party or one candidate or even one institution. And that's true even with one church as a Christian. I'm committed to truth and justice.
The bureaucracy always goes with the way politicians go.
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
I will never leave UCLA and will stay at UCLA as long they will have me.
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
Unlike many other peoples less happy, we give our devotion to a Government, to its Constitution, to its flag, and not to men.
I would die in a ditch for the impartiality of the BBC.
Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.
I'm interested in institutions, particularly in the way institutions close ranks. They have hierarchies and their own ethics.
[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.
If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something.
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous.
Michigan State means so much to my life and me.
I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue.
Speaking French is good for me and also a mark of respect for the PSG institution.
Aging leaders have put their own survival ahead of their reason for being and above that of the institution they serve.
