Public Business Quotes by George Mason

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• Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the… — Jonathan Swift
• All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate… — John Quincy Adams
• I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very… — George Mason
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• Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and… — Brooks Atkinson
• In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• The first mistake in public business is the going into it. — Benjamin Franklin
• When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any… — Jacob K. Javits
• When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation… — Neil Postman
• I prefer to supervise the whole operations of Government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates and this makes my… — James K. Polk

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