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  • If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage. (Colby Frank Moore)
  • The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. (Colby Frank Moore)
  • When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes. (Colby Frank Moore)
  • We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. (Colby Frank Moore)
  • In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. (Colby Frank Moore)
  • A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. (Colby Frank Moore)
  • No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. (Colby Frank Moore)
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