Institutional Values Quotes

Our naturalization and immigration laws should be further improved to the constant promotion of a safer, a better, and a higher citizenship. A grave peril to the Republic would be a citizenship too ignorant to understand or too vicious to appreciate the great value and beneficence of our institutions and laws, and against all who come here to make war upon them our gates must be promptly and tightly closed.

A commitment to the Constitution is not something that's genetic. It's not inherited. It's not automatic. It has to be taught. And each generation must learn about the Constitution and the values of constitutional institutions within the context of their own time, within the environment of their own time.

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.

Liberty University will not lend its name or financial support to any student group that advances causes contrary to its mission.

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.

I went to a college prep high school in St. Louis, Missouri. When I graduated from school, I owned this thing called the Headmaster's Cup, and the Headmaster's Cup is for the student who exemplifies the spirit of the institution and is recognized by the faculty and administration.

I am not in favour of hierarchies that grant privileges to members who fail to uphold those values - there are plenty of those - but the monarchy is really the Queen, who is of unimpeachable integrity and the longest serving head of state in the world, and who never puts a foot wrong.

To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.