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I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. -- Thomas Jefferson
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. -- Channing Pollock
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. -- Huey Newton
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it. -- Noah Webster
Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. -- George Washington
It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food. -- Regis Philbin
We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's. -- Phil Harris
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent. -- Pete Seeger
I went through quite a few establishments that maybe weren't great for myself - security units, youth-offender places. I guess that was going to the lions' den. Social services said, 'You've got to go to some sort of school.' -- King Krule
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. -- Adam Ferguson
I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace. -- Richard Cobden
Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent. -- Ed Smith
Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption -- James Madison
Congress has no power to make any religious establishments. -- Roger Sherman
[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself. -- Karl Marx
Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.... -- Philip Larkin
We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture. -- George Washington
Invent new drugs, that's what you should be doing... fight to get new weirder ones... and weirder establishments to do them in. -- Doug Stanhope
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects. -- James Madison
Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted to dance. -- Jamake Highwater
But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments? -- Thomas Jefferson
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? -- James Madison
... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark. -- James Madison
We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wagons to move the camp of a regiment from one place to another, and some of the camps had bakeries and cooking establishments that would have done credit to Delmonico." -- William T. Sherman
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity. -- James Madison
The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establishments like the one the US represents. -- Gilberto Gil
If your heart, mind, and actions are selfish, they will ultimately divide you, others, or entire [establishments]. When motivation is pure and selfless, it will result in helping bring others together. -- A.J. Darkholme
Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are... -- Robert L. Bartley

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