Institutions
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“Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of man, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)