Office Quotes — Page 33

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Scott Adams

Cartoonist

“Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.”

Thinking Science Office

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Scott Adams

Cartoonist

“Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier.”

Home Office Easier

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.”

Office Innovation Prepared

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.”

Religious Office Atheism

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?”

Men Office Aristocracy

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.”

Office Difficulty Bureaucracy

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.”

Office Retirement Debt

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.”

Mean Office Advantage

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.”

Office Retirement Virginia

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.”

Differences Office Political Opinions

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.”

Life Practice Office

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“Public offices were not made for private convenience.”

Made Office Convenience

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