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In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

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.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

The presidency is not an office job.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.