Governments should fully acquaint themselves with the
conditions of those they govern, and confer upon them positions according to
desert and merit. It is enjoined upon every ruler and sovereign to consider
this matter with the utmost care that the traitor may not usurp the position of
the faithful, nor the despoiler rule in the place of the trustworthy.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
