Good Offices Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they…
— Jefferson Davis
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
— Isaac Newton
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We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on,…
— David Hume
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After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved,…
— Arundhati Roy
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Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had,…
— Benjamin Franklin
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A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good…
— C.S. Lewis
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If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words,…
— Charles Albert Gobat
Who Wrote These Good Offices Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 8 Good Offices Quotes as follows: