| "Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate." »Ulysses S. Grant |
| "You should not live one way in private, another in public." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Praise in public criticize in private." »Vince Lombardi |
| "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." »Robert A. Heinlein |
| "Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view." »Anonymous |
| "Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public." »Edgar Watson Howe |
| "No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty." »Leon Wieseltier |
| "Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing." »Charles Krauthammer |
| "Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield |
| "My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them." »Penn Jillette |
| "Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again." »Frank Moore Colby |
| "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before." »Luigi Barzini |
| "Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners." »Josh Billings |
| "I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either." »Sophocles |
| "Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station." »Joseph Addison |
| "All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory." »Sir V Pritchett |
| "I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values." »Louis D. Brandeis |
| "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never." »Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine |
| "America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes." »Ayn Rand |
| "Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple." »Marcius Porcius Cato |
| "A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member." »Johathan Edwards |
| "The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'" »Ken Konecki |
| "Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption." »Mark Twain |
| "Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift (Rom. 126-8)." »Bruce Kemper |
| "As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." »Tench Coxe |
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