Carl Sagan Quotes, Office Quotes

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

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Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Simple Quotes , Office Quotes

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

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The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we remember that some of the most famous words ever spoken by an American came from a president who took office in a time of turmoil: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

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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.

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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

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This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

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I have never had to travel more than thirty seconds from home to office, and it's because of that that I've been able to maintain, really a family life that has nurtured and sustained me during this time [of presidency].

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

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I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

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MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

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I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

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