To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred...

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not ‘What can I do for you?’ but ‘What can I do you for?

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is...

Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of patriotism.

I had a dream about you. You made phone books for a living, and I filled up your pages by impregnating as many women as possible. You said I was a living saint, and I...

These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged.

all I can grab,” only its suburban boundary can limit its growth.

We believe that only government has the capacity–not to mention the political and moral responsibility–to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or...

I saw the figure of 178 Billion wasted/stolen from the people of a country by its corrupt and inept government. Such a figure could truly transform the entire country; education, health, roads, schooling, entrepreneurial environment…...