Quote by H.W. Brands

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…

— Andrew Jackson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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 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

“...it is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it... for no one…

— Aristotle

“Accountability in public office is but one manifestation of this cultural inheritance, and we should not be surprised that it is the first thing…

— Roger Scruton

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

All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many…

— Herman Melville

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights,…

— Edmund Burke