Sublime

The leader’s part of accountability involves taking the time to review the new leader’s work and give honest, constructive criticism.

Before Moses, the public authority had been a mere instrument of the city, a body established by the city’s duly constituted, elected officials to carry out one of their decisions. His public authorities had been set up to do what they wanted done. Now his authorities would do what he wanted done.

les assemblées parlementaires représentent ce que les peuples ont encore trouvé de meilleur pour se gouverner et surtout pour se soustraire le plus possible au joug des tyrannies personnelles. Elles sont certainement l'idéal d'un gouvernement, au moins pour les philosophes, les penseurs, les écrivains, les artistes et les savants, en un mot pour to

Imperfect as New York’s old political system may have been, the public will was never insignificant within it. The borough presidents and other elected officials who had exercised power under it were kept in power only by the public’s votes, and they were therefore responsible and responsive to the public. Such responsiveness was built into the old

When a democratic republic renders offices which had formerly been remunerated gratuitous, it may safely be believed that the State is advancing to monarchical institutions; and when a monarchy begins to remunerate such officers as had hitherto been unpaid, it is a sure sign that it is approaching toward a despotic or a republican form of governmen

"It is indeed probable that the men who are best fitted to discharge the duties of this high office would have too much reserve in their manners, and too much austerity in their principles, for them to be returned by the majority at an election where universal suffrage is adopted."