| "Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye." »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got." »Richard M. Nixon |
| "Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno |
| "The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public." »Robert F. Kennedy |
| "When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings" »William C. Bagley |
| "We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat." »Arthur Hays Sulzberger |
| "What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public." »Vilhjalmur Stefansson |
| "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." »Cyril Connolly |
| "You should not live one way in private, another in public." »Publilius Syrus |
| "public speaking is very easy." »Dan Quayle |
| "Handguns are a public-health problem." »Josh Sugarmann |
| "Praise in public criticize in private." »Vince Lombardi |
| "The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth." »Edith Sitwell |
| "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time." »Calvin Coolidge |
| "You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." »Scott Adams |
| "I ask, Who are the militia They consist now of the whole people, except for a few public officers." »George Mason |
| "The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution" »C. D. Tavares |
| "Who will protect the public when the police violate the law" »Ramsey Clark |
| "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public." »Robert Morley |
| "I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them." »Calvin Coolidge |
| "It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State." »Roger B. Taney |
| "I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service." »Ronald Reagan |
| "The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness." »Jean Cocteau |
| "The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas." »Judge John Kane |
| "To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." »Samuel Butler |
| "Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent." »Jonathan Swift |
| Like Quotes.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
