Benefits Quote by Andrew Jackson

In a country where offices arecreated solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station…

— Anonymous

“In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any more intrinsic right to official…

— H.W. Brands

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

— Tom Wicker

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect…

— Walter Lippmann

If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a…

— Henry David Thoreau

In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in any other…

— Samuel Johnson

If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomesonly a hired…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ordinary people in such positions - working at firms, companies, or chains - have the absolute right to have their voice in the public…

— Ben Domenech

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

— Anonymous

If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights…

— William Wilberforce

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Franklin Knight Lane