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3. “There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.”
Thomas Jefferson
Education, Governance, Public Service, Community, Political Structure
4. “In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be – burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.” Thomas Jefferson Government, Public Service, Virtue, Sacrifice, Political Responsibility
10. “The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads.” John F. Kennedy Presidential leadership, Political responsibility, Public service, Leadership qualities, Civic duty, Passionate leadership
14. “All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.” John F. Kennedy Political life, Senate, Public service, Political atmosphere, Representation, Political struggle
17. “I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.” John F. Kennedy Political identity, Religious independence, Political candidate, Church-state separation, Public service, Personal faith
18. “The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.” John F. Kennedy Responsible power, Political ethics, Public service, Leadership responsibility, Social duty, Political integrity
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3. “There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.”
Thomas Jefferson Education, Governance, Public Service, Community, Political Structure
4. “In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be – burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.”
Thomas Jefferson Government, Public Service, Virtue, Sacrifice, Political Responsibility
10. “The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads.”
John F. Kennedy Presidential leadership, Political responsibility, Public service, Leadership qualities, Civic duty, Passionate leadership
14. “All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.”
John F. Kennedy Political life, Senate, Public service, Political atmosphere, Representation, Political struggle
17. “I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.”
John F. Kennedy Political identity, Religious independence, Political candidate, Church-state separation, Public service, Personal faith
18. “The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.”
John F. Kennedy Responsible power, Political ethics, Public service, Leadership responsibility, Social duty, Political integrity
