Source: "Reflections on institutional theories of organization,." 2008, p. 790
“Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.”
Speech in the Guildhall, London (9 November 1866), quoted in The Times (10 November 1866), p. 9
1860s
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Context: Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by which that burden can be shifted to the government. It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

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Gastronomy or Geology? The Role of Nationalism in the Reconstruction of Nations. (1994)