Easy Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Easy Government Honorable Misery Office Politics Splendid
The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The best government is not the one that you can serve in the longest, but the government that's closest to the people. — George Brauchler Copy Share Image
Government is at its best when you've got servant leaders that are acting for the good of the public. — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. — Mencius Copy Share Image
The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of… — Bellamy Young Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
People think that the Club World Cup is an easy competition, but it's not. — Keylor Navas Copy Share Image
New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it. — Ted McGinley Copy Share Image
"I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't… — Kim Clijsters Copy Share Image