Establishment Quotes

• What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Freedom, Mean, Army

  House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution, August 17, 1789.

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• One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Change, Philosophical, Moving Forward

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• The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

  George McGovern

  War, Cancer, Political

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• The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Years, Religion, Development

  Andrew Dickson White (1930). “History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom”, p.266, Library of Alexandria

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• There are always two parties;
  the establishment and the movement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Two, Movement

  "Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England" (1867)

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• It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

  Thomas Paine

  Truth, Men, Principles

  Thomas Paine (1795). “Dissertation on First-principles of Government”, p.36

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• I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

  Florynce Kennedy

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• If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Ifs

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• The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Self Esteem, Sacrifice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Secular Society, Law

  Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates, J. W. Randolph, James Madison (1850). “The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions”, p.136

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• The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

  Bella Abzug

  Men, Littles, Made

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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• For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

  Tammy Bruce

  Pride, Gay, Rights

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.87, Crown Forum

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• There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, Ubuntu, Making Peace

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• The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.

  Terence McKenna

  Smart, Moving, Believe

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• Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

  James Woods

  Thinking, Voice, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of
  such a place?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Life And Death, Progress

  "Lindbergh Said to Regret Misperceptions Over Jews" by Herber Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 20, 1980.

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• For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

  J. C. Watts

  Party, Games, Community

  "J.C. Watts Warns of GOP Catastrophe Amongst African-Americans" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2007.

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• A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

  Joyce Cary

  Art, Ideas, World

  Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

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• The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion.

  Hugo Black

  Mean, Government, Law

  "Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1". Writing for the court, 1947.

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• I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

  Isabel Allende

  People, Overcoming, Obstacles

  "Allende Examines the Caribbean's Chaotic History Through New Novel". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 23, 2010.

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• If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

  Art Buchwald

  Long, Enough, Members

  The International Herald Tribune, May 24, 1989.

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• If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

  Kevin Spacey

  Birthday, Heart, Uprising

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• Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Giving, Slavery

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.313, Library of Alexandria

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• Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

  Algernon Sidney

  Law, Justice, Liberty

  Algernon Sidney (1751). “Discourses Concerning Government”, p.366

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• There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

  Huey Newton

  People, Patriotism, No Fear

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