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"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
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"I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service." »Ronald Reagan
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"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
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"The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong." »Elizabeth II
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"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
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"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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"An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service." »E.B. White
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"The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service." »James A. Perkins
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"Putain Public (reference to Elizabeth I- means public whore)" »King Henry III of France
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"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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"Service without selfness, is not service" »Samuel A. Lucero
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"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property" »Thomas Jefferson
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"Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot." »Johannes Trithemius, 1488
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"We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat." »Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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"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
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"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
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"There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice." »Stephen Mansfield
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"Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons." »Josh Sugarmann
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"Service is not easy but necessary" »Sindiswa Matyobeni
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"How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be" »Vincent Van Gogh
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"The end of all education should surely be service to others." »Cesar E. Chavez
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"The highest of distinctions is service to others." »King George VI
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"Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man." »George Washington
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"Love is a kind of military service." »Latin Proverb
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"As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." »Muhammad Ali
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"Your creative contribution to the world is your service to God." »Oscar Bonga Nomvete
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"A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service." »Georges Pompidou
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