"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
― Thomas Jefferson
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Politics
More From Thomas Jefferson
- "It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
- "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
- "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities."
More In Politics
- "Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."― Ambrose Bierce
- "When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics."― William Hague
- "We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation."― Paul Wellstone