Emoluments Quotes

#1. That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary.

George Mason

#2. One of the anarch's emoluments is that he is distinguished for things that he has done on the side or that go against his grain.

Ernst Junger

#3. The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.

Sun Tzu

#5. I have always been a fire, and everyone I loved walked away as ashes, until I met a phoenix who was born to love flames.

Jenim Dibie

#6. Secrets have power so long as they remain secrets

Steven Erikson

#7. When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.

Willie Nelson

#8. How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

Antonin Artaud

#9. I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

Lionel Hampton

#10. How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

Jefferson Davis

#11. I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

Harry E. Sloan

#12. A man is born free.

Stokely Carmichael

#13. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Jodi Picoult

#14. The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

William Shakespeare