Connections Quote by Samuel Johnson

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

— Franklin Knight Lane

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

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

If you rely on political factions to promote men to office, the people will work to develop instrumental relationships and will not seek to…

— Han Fei

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

— James Madison

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

— Henry Ward Beecher

If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomesonly a hired…

— Henry David Thoreau

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

— Giambattista Vico

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not,…

— James F. Cooper

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

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...

— Abraham Lincoln