Nate

“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.”
― Henry Adams, Democracy: An American Novel

“If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality