A story is told of Thomas Jefferson riding on horseback with a group of companions, reaching a river without a bridge.
Standing on the bank was a man who needed to get across.
One by one, they passed him until Jefferson was alongside and the man asked, “Can you carry me across the river?” Jefferson immediately did.
One of Jefferson’s men pulled the guy aside and yelled, “How dare you ask the President of the United States for a lift! You could have asked any one of us, instead you chose to bother him?”