1.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
2.
Alexander Pope -
“Fools admire, but men of sense approve.”
3.
Abraham Lincoln -
“While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.”
4.
Abraham Lincoln -
“There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration. Attributed to Representative Abraham Lincoln. by W. T. Roche, address at Washington, Kansas, April 9, 1942: 'These words were spoken by Lincoln, then a Congressman, in defense of his condemnation of President Polk for provoking the Mexican War.'”
5.
Dr. Samuel Johnson -
“There are charms made only for distant admiration.”
6.
Thomas Jefferson -
“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would, in case of war, be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one. For wars could be reduced in that proportion; besides that the State governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas.”
7.
Theophile Gautier -
“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”
8.
Benjamin Franklin -
“Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.”
9.
William Feather -
“We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.”
10.
Denis Diderot -
“Distance is a great promoter of admiration!”
11.
Francis Herbert Bradley -
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
12.
Elizabeth Bowen -
“Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.”
13.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce -
“REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.... the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.”
14.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce -
“ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.”
15.
Walter Bagehot -
“It has been said that England invented the phrase, ‘Her Majesty’s Opposition’; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.”
16.
John Dalberg, Lord Acton -
“Everything secret degenerates; nothing is safe that does not bear discussion and publicity.”
17.
Emily Dickinson -
“How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog.”
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