Words to live by.

1) "The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men."

— Samuel Adams

2) "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over
his fellow citizens....There has never been a moment of my life
in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my
family, my farm, my friends & books."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Melish, 13 January 1813)