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> [For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/for-you-the-state-is-an-entity-with-purposes-of-its-own-that-the/)

[Elliot Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-richardson/)

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## More by Elliot Richardson

> [But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/but-tending-machinery-was-one-thing-defining-what-we-were-trying-to/)

[Elliot Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-richardson/)

> [The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/the-vice-president-had-a-bargaining-asset-however-that-no-ordinary/)

[Elliot Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-richardson/)

> [I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/i-had-come-to-regard-the-u-s-senate-s-rejection-of-the-league-of/)

[Elliot Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-richardson/)

> [They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/they-ve-got-him-credible-witnesses-documents-heaven-knows-what-else/)

[Elliot Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-richardson/)

> [For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/for-you-the-state-is-an-entity-with-purposes-of-its-own-that-the/)

[Elliot Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-richardson/)

> [If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/if-the-large-power-voluntarily-abstains-from-using-its-full-power-or/)

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> [If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/if-there-are-flaws-they-are-in-ourselves-and-our-task-therefore-must/)

[Elliot Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-richardson/)

> [The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/the-experience-of-learning-how-to-get-straight-to-the-core-of-a/)

[Elliot Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-richardson/)

> [My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/my-most-important-task-must-be-an-attempt-to-bring-the-monster-under/)

[Elliot Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-richardson/)

> [I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/i-thought-i-was-going-to-be-killed-the-casualties-were-so-heavy-it/)

[Elliot Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-richardson/)

> [The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/the-watergate-reforms-did-work-well-for-many-years-and-if-improved/)

[Elliot Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-richardson/)

> [There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/there-is-an-increasingly-pervasive-sense-not-only-of-failure-but-of/)

[Elliot Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-richardson/)

> [I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/i-said-the-first-concern-of-the-administration-of-justice-must-of/)

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> [It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/it-often-seemed-like-we-had-become-a-nation-where-the-only-heroes/)

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> [Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-richardson/mr-president-i-believe-your-real-problem-is-that-you-have-somehow/)

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