“Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.”
“The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.”
“Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued.”
“Our uniqueness is what makes us common. It is the same fact that we are unique that we as individuals have in common.”
“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.”
“The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.”