Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Source: In The New York Public Library Book of 20th Century American Quotations, by Stephen Donadio, 1992.
-- Jimmy Carter, (Oct 1 1924-____), US president (39th); He was the 39th U.S. president (1977-81) and the first elected from the deep south.