Detriments Quotes

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense. Benefits ought to be handed out drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

It is a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire and many things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of Kings.

My return to public life in a subordinate station is disagreeable to my family, and disapproved by some of my friends.

Men in great places are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

In the Middle Ages it was the fashion to wear hair shirts to remind one's self of trouble and sin. Many years ago I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The President differs only from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. We have had tonight an indication of the great variety of persons and organizations who cheerfully and voluntarily insist on acting as hair-shirts to the President.

A damned bore

The more authority a person asks for in a democracy, the less privacy they’re entitled to.

Well, I’ll never have to talk about crap like dope addiction again.

The only problem with running for office is, once you are elected you have to serve.

The only difference between the Kennedy assassination and mine is that I am alive and it has been more torturous.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Some people think I'm a terrible radical, but really I'm not so very dangerous at all.

I think he [President Jimmy Carter]'s around too many people that kiss his ass all the time.

I should take up a different line of work if I can’t take criticism.

You don’t make any money in the White House—that’s for darn sure—but you can get things done….The most rewarding experience I have ever had was my three years in the White House.

Boy, the things I do for England.