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Mr. Jackson was a respected spokesman for the auditor's office and long-time servant in state government, the work of the Missouri auditor's office will continue in this difficult time, but no doubt it will be with heavy heart. – John Watson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Mr. Mayorkas is still at the Department of Homeland Security because he is a decorated public servant and an effective leader of that organization, and we certainly value the kind of contribution that he has made to the effective management of that department, and he has played an important role in implementing needed reforms in that department. In fact, he was somebody who was leading the effort to strengthen the EB-5 program. – White House spokesman Josh Earnest	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I feel very proud because I've never made a bag for a king before, it's like I'm a servant doing something for a King. – Xi Chen	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We have lost a true public servant with the passing of Alan Nunnelee, who dedicated so much of his life to improving Mississippi, my thoughts and prayers are with Tori and the entire Nunnelee family at this sad time. – Thad Cochran	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing. – Bill Clinton	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Tony Blinken is a tireless and able public servant who has served the nation well. – Bob Menendez	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy. – Gerald Ford	added by anonymous 9 years ago
My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit rejoiceth in God my Saviour. Because He hath looked down on the lowliness of His handmaid: for behold henceforth all generations will call me blessed. Because the Mighty One hath done great things for me: and holy is His name. And His mercy is from generation to generation: on those who fear Him. He showeth might in His arm: He scattereth the proud in the conceit of their heart. He casteth down the mighty from theirthrone: and exalteth the lowly. He filleth the hungry with good things: and the rich He sendeth away empty. He hath received His servant Israel: being mindful of His mercy. As He spake to our fathers: to Abraham and to his seed forever. – Mary	added by anonymous 9 years ago
In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant. – Constantin Stanislavski	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face. – Francis of Assisi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit rejoiceth in God my Saviour. Because He hath looked down on the lowliness of His handmaid: for behold henceforth all generations will call me blessed. Because the Mighty One hath done great things for me: and holy is His name. And His mercy is from generation to generation: on those who fear Him. He showeth might in His arm: He scattereth the proud in the conceit of their heart. He casteth down the mighty from theirthrone: and exalteth the lowly. He filleth the hungry with good things: and the rich He sendeth away empty. He hath received His servant Israel: being mindful of His mercy. As He spake to our fathers: to Abraham and to his seed forever. – Mary	added by anonymous 10 years ago
This means we must subject the machinetechnologyto control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money. The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the Holy Grail. The search of the youth today is for ways and means to make the machineand the vast bureaucracy of the corporation state and of government that runs that machinethe servant of man. That is the revolution that is coming. That revolutionnow that the people hold the residual powers of governmentneed not be a repetition of 1776. It could be a revolution in the nature of an explosive political regeneration. It depends on how wise the Establishment is. If, with its stockpile of arms, it resolves to suppress the dissenters, America will face, I fear, an awful ordeal. – William O. Douglas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. – William Congreve	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I shall believe that it is impossible to become a great leader if you never been a great servant. – Craig McKenzie	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources. – Norman Vincent Peale	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. – James Fenimore Cooper	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. – Brigham Young	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities... – B. C. Forbes	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. – Theodore Parker	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. – John Selden	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband. – Lady Bird Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. – Thomas Fuller	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Mr. Jackson was a respected spokesman for the auditor's office and long-time servant in state government, the work of the Missouri auditor's office will continue in this difficult time, but no doubt it will be with heavy heart.

– John Watson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Mr. Mayorkas is still at the Department of Homeland Security because he is a decorated public servant and an effective leader of that organization, and we certainly value the kind of contribution that he has made to the effective management of that department, and he has played an important role in implementing needed reforms in that department. In fact, he was somebody who was leading the effort to strengthen the EB-5 program.

– White House spokesman Josh Earnest

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I feel very proud because I've never made a bag for a king before, it's like I'm a servant doing something for a King.

– Xi Chen

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We have lost a true public servant with the passing of Alan Nunnelee, who dedicated so much of his life to improving Mississippi, my thoughts and prayers are with Tori and the entire Nunnelee family at this sad time.

– Thad Cochran

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.

– Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Tony Blinken is a tireless and able public servant who has served the nation well.

– Bob Menendez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

– Gerald Ford

added by anonymous
9 years ago

My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit rejoiceth in God my Saviour. Because He hath looked down on the lowliness of His handmaid: for behold henceforth all generations will call me blessed. Because the Mighty One hath done great things for me: and holy is His name. And His mercy is from generation to generation: on those who fear Him. He showeth might in His arm: He scattereth the proud in the conceit of their heart. He casteth down the mighty from theirthrone: and exalteth the lowly. He filleth the hungry with good things: and the rich He sendeth away empty. He hath received His servant Israel: being mindful of His mercy. As He spake to our fathers: to Abraham and to his seed forever.

– Mary

added by anonymous
9 years ago

In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.

– Constantin Stanislavski

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

– Charles Baudelaire

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

– Francis of Assisi