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

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.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

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.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

The law is immoral.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.