It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it...

I know the police cause you troubleThey cause trouble everywhereBut when you die and go to heavenYou find no policeman there

Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.

Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people.

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.