Discovery of love Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

“Necessary policemen, firemen, street cleaners, health officers, judges, legislators and executives perform productive services as important as those of anyone in private industry. They…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.

— Thabo Mbeki

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

The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to…

— Cato the Younger

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

Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to…

— Samuel Adams

No man is a warmer advocate for proper restraints and wholesome checks in every department of government than I am; but I have never…

— George Washington