"A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him."

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No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to subordinates constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very great.

— James K. Polk