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

Abraham Lincoln

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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?

Janet Poppendieck

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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 pointless.

Iain Pears

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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 for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

Aristophanes

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

Grover Cleveland

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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?

H.M. Forester

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