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

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.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.