In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

I have tried so hard to do right.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

Some day I will be better remembered.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

Honor lies in honest toil.

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

Party honesty is party expediency.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government.

The ship of democracy which has weathered all storms may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

I don't like government, it's just that simple.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.

War is just one more big government program.

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.