Candidate Quote by Noah Webster

“At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything else to…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

— Edmund Randolph

“Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

— Calvin Coolidge

I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments.

— Bill Bright

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to…

— James Madison

It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the…

— Bertrand Russell

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

— Gautama Buddha

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the men which it forms”

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know…

— John Henry Newman