Affair Quote by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious…

— Augustine of Hippo

We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as harmless but as a useless character.

— Pericles

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

— Boris Yeltsin

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to…

— Walter Lippmann

The people of the United States are not morally fit to survive.

— Lyndon LaRouche

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great people have great values and great ethics.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

— Masha Gessen

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own…

— Henry George

“The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and of great passions from the pursuit of power, and it very frequently happens…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

— Aristotle