Ask me Quote by Lincoln Steffens Download Open image “You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.” — Lincoln Steffens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ask me Ask Serve Being honest Honest Honest Ask Men Men Office Office Office Honest Serve Public
In politics, if you want anything said ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated. — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering,… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
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If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”…… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
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