Public Quotes
- Page 51It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
Ezra Stiles
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
Denis Kearney
I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
Dan Rather
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas a Kempis
The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.
Charles W. Pickering
In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.
Ben Bernanke
Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.
Mark Cuban
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
Shirin Ebadi
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
Warren Beatty
They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
Michael Jackson
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
William Blackstone
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
Marshall McLuhan
The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
George C. Williams
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
Allan Sloan
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.
Milton Babbitt
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
Tom Robbins
The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.
Chris Bell
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.
Paul Farmer
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
Edward Tufte
The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.
Errol Flynn
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
J. B. Priestley
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
William S. Paley