Quote From Book I'm Reading

"Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money,--the "spoils," so called, "of office." And why not? For they aspire to the highest, and this, in their sleep-walking, they dream is the highest. Wake them, and they shall quit the false good, and leap to the true, and leave governments to clerks and desks." The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson