Community Quote by Henry David Thoreau

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

— Henry David Thoreau

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

— George Washington

“...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

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who…

— John Ruskin

A person at an eminent position does not need money. A chairman of a big company or something like that, I can’t buy him…

— Arnon Milchan

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically…

— Theodore Roosevelt

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

— Nathan Myhrvold

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

— Timothy Noah

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

— Harry S. Truman

He who is satisfied with what he has, is a rich man.

— Nabil N Jamal

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

— Simone de Beauvoir