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 may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 have myself taken a hand in propagating the virtues of workers' partnership in the management and I strove hard to set up Joint Management Councils in as many establishments as possible both in the private and public sectors. Gulzarilal Nanda
I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. Thomas Jefferson
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. Huey P. Newton