Things happen for a reason Quote by 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…

— Andrew Jackson

“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

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

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

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

— Ben Domenech

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

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

— Anonymous

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

— William Hazlitt

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

— Eleanor Roosevelt