Public Office Quotes

• A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Jobs, Opportunity, Office

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• Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

  Henry Clay

  Trust, Government, People

  Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Candidate, Compromiser, Whig, March 5, 1829-December 31, 1836”, p.42, University Press of Kentucky

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• Public offices were not made for private convenience.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Office, Made, Convenience

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• No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

  Thomas E. Dewey

  Men, Office, Should

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• You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

  Julie Nixon Eisenhower

  Running, Ideas, Office

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• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Boies Penrose

  Office, Political, Patriotism

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• What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

  Richard J. Daley

  People, Office, Political

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• If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Office, Corruption

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• The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

  John C. Calhoun

  Trust, Country, Party

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Office, Gentleman

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

  Herman Cain

  Office, People

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• A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Nature, Practice, Office

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  It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Honesty, Hate

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• Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

  Bob Etheridge

  Office, Levels, Republican

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• Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

  Grover Cleveland

  Law, People, Agents

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Employment, Affair

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Power, Giving, Times Of Crisis

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

  H. L. Mencken

  Years, People, Records

  Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.

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• The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

  Charles Sumner

  Office, Lasts, Phrases

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• In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Loss, Government, Times Like These

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.44, Modern Library

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• I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs. I believe the founding fathers meant it when they provided in Article VI of the Constitution that there should be no religious test for public office. And I believe that the American people mean to adhere to those principles today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Father, Believe

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• When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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• There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by good laws and good examples nourished and trained up in; so that civil places and trust and credit need not be monopolized into the hands of church members (who sometimes are not fitted for public office), while all others are deprived and despoiled of their natural and civil rights and liberties.

  Roger Williams

  Honesty, Men, Hands

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• Being promoted to a top position in your organisation, or even being elected to public office, does not suddenly endow you with financial literacy, if you did not acquire and develop it, earlier in your life.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Office, Doe, Financial

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