Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.
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If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.
Societies are not sustainable without institutions.
An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will.