Honored Quote by Tom Wicker

“In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any more intrinsic right to official…

— H.W. Brands

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official…

— Andrew Jackson

In a country where offices arecreated solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station…

— Anonymous

Rights are in the power of the people.

— Ken Starr

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

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life…

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

— George Washington

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights,…

— Edmund Burke

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

— James Hillman