Marriage is a great institution.

Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

If there is one thing we need to avoid, it is competition between E.U. institutions.

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

Conservatism is about freedom, yes. But it is also about the institutions and attitudes that shape the responsible citizen, and ensure that freedom is a benefit to us all. Conservatism is therefore also about the limits to freedom.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever.

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

The world is a penal institution.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.