Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Kings Quotes, Office Quotes

A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.

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It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

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The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

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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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The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

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When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

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Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

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There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.

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Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

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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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Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

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

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I have great respect for both President Obama and the office that he holds

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Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

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All I care about is making sure that I leave behind an America that is stronger, more prosperous, more stable, more secure than it was when I came into office and that's going to continue to drive me.

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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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When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it.

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The insolence of office.

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