Quotes About Public offices

After briefly acknowledging the tragedy of his predecessor's passing, he called for an increase in the size of the Navy, avoidance of public debt during peacetime, stabilization of the currency, and greater scrutiny over abuse of public offices.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

Then you cannot have thought much either of your position or of mine." "He is a gentleman, papa." "So is my private secretary. There is not a clerk in one of our public offices who does not consider himself to be a gentleman. The curate of the parish is a gentleman, and the medical man who comes here from Bradstock. The word is too vague to carry with it any meaning that ought to be serviceable to you in thinking of such a matter.

It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election. -- Aristotle, Politics, Book IV

Origen, the great Alexandrian church father in the first half of the third century, admitted the truth of the charge "that Christians decline public offices," and declared those persons "enemies of our faith who require us to bear arms for the commonwealth and to slay men.