Ambition Quote by John Peter Altgeld

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

— Warren G. Harding

“No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values, fail as…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is that no man should be judge in…

— Edmund Burke

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“We will establish a new land where man can assume that every individual man—not the mass of men but individual men—has inalienable right to…

— William Faulkner

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short…

— Plato

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

— Bryant H. McGill

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by…

— Edmund Burke

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature... no…

— William Penn

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

— James Madison

“No man on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities from…

— Socrates