Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule.

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws not of men.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

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

Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened proud safe part of the world.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are one Security to possessors two facility to acquirers and three hope to all.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.