If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral implications here, and I'm not sure that we have grappled with any of them.
The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.
The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.