Aristotle Office Quotations

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.