Book Quote by Thomas Jefferson

An honest man often becomes characterless getting a position of power.

— Mak_786

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An…

— Thomas Jefferson

We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit…

— Warren Gamaliel Harding

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence…

— Andrew Jackson

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

— Junius

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

— William Hazlitt

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power…

— Claud Cockburn

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

— William Shakespeare

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them…

— Anthony Trollope

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

— Ayn Rand

An honest man is respected by all parties.

— William Hazlitt