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1. "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 us responsibility for things that concern us in common." ~ Elliot Richardson

2. "It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task." ~ Elliot Richardson

3. "I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake." ~ Elliot Richardson

4. "I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth." ~ Elliot Richardson

5. "The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today." ~ Elliot Richardson

6. "If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power." ~ Elliot Richardson

7. "Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin." ~ Elliot Richardson

8. "The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail." ~ Elliot Richardson

9. "They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case." ~ Elliot Richardson

10. "If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe." ~ Elliot Richardson

11. "There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible." ~ Elliot Richardson

12. "People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism." ~ Elliot Richardson

13. "I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit." ~ Elliot Richardson

14. "This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades." ~ Elliot Richardson

15. "But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again." ~ Elliot Richardson

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Hope is one of the three great Christian virtues because Christ Himself is the master of life and therefore the master of hope. We are free to choose because we were made free from the beginning, and He honors our agency and our right and ability to choose. The choice He offers is life, and life offers hope. Any other choice is a choice of spiritual death that will bring us into the power of the devil…Part of that hope in Christ is hope in the future, a future that includes resurrection and salvation and exaltation."
Author: Chieko N. Okazaki