"The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery."
― Thomas Jefferson
Topic(s):
Government
More From Thomas Jefferson
- "Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
- "Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."
- "I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office."
More In Government
- "Britain is no longer one of the world’s price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is."― Vince Cable
- "It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government."― Alexander Hamilton
- "Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we’d all probably be better for it too."― John Bolton