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"If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds."
"Let's make my birthday, July the 7th at noon, Peace and Love Day. Everybody go, 'Peace and love.' In the office, on the bus, wherever. It's still peace and love for me, I'm a product of the 60s and it was a very influential period in my life, and you know, my head was turned around a bit, my eyes were opened as it were. In fact, I even have it on my arm, 'Peace and love'. I see nothing wrong with peace and love."
"Once you run for office, you're in it - sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally."
"Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office."
"The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight."
"when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same."
"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
"I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office."
"Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision."
"I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed."
"You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public."
"A workman is not just a workman. A laborer is not just a laborer. An office worker is not just an office worker. They are living, breathing, important pillars on which the entire structure of our civilization is erected. They are not cogs in a mighty machine. They are the machine itself."
"Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on."
"A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book."
"Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us."
"When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil."
"Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man."
"Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man."
"Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power."
"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders."
