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"Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants."
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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
"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."
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
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"People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost."
"You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts."
"I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it."
"We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other."
"Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him."
"To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty."
"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
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