This is Steve's company. This is still Steve's company. It was born that way; it's still that way. And so his spirit, I think, will always be the DNA of this company.Tim Cook
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.Thomas Paine
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.Adam Smith
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.Edmund Burke
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.Edmund Burke
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.Edmund Burke
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.Edmund Burke
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.Edmund Burke
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.Montesquieu
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.Montesquieu
