Public Office Quotes

Public Office Quotes

Ambrose Bierce

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

Jean de la Bruyere

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

Frank Moore Colby

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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.

Oliver Cromwell

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Walter Lippmann

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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 ...

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