Quotes about public office




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"Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office."

Bierce, Ambrose on public office    Share


"Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller."

Bruyere, Jean De La on public office    Share

"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."

Colby, Frank Moore on public office    Share

"The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies."

Cromwell, Oliver on public office    Share

"When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes."

Hemingway, Ernest on public office    Share

"Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs."

Jefferson, Thomas on public office    Share

"We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on public office    Share

"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."

Lippmann, Walter on public office    Share

"A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue."

Nixon, Richard M. on public office    Share

"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse."

Roosevelt, Theodore on public office    Share

"You don't have power if you surrender all your principles -- you have office."

Todd, Ron on public office    Share

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