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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything. — Will Rogers

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. — Barry Goldwater

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated. — Benjamin Mkapa

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom. — Patrick Henry

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling. — Napoleon Bonaparte

No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room ... — Marsilio Ficino

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community. — Richardson Wright

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one. — Charles Caleb Colton

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. — Edmund Randolph

Society is the total of the forced or voluntary services that men perform for each other; that is to say, of public services and private services. — Frederic Bastiat

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower. — Gautama Buddha

Every man is eloquent once in his life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men fall in private long before they fall in public. — J.C. Ryle

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided ... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. — Ulysses S. Grant

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public. — George Berkeley

Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use. — George Bernard Shaw

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages. — Chris O'Dowd

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side. — Thomas Reed

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters. — Edith Hamilton

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. — James F. Cooper

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men. — Samuel Adams

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. — Elliott Abrams

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. — Glenn Gould

I'm thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It's just a little bag but we'd feel naked in public without it. — Sarah Jessica Parker

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. — Marlene Dietrich

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust. — Millard Fillmore

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand. — George Bernard Shaw

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit. — George Bernard Shaw

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free. — Euripides

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. — John Adams

I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth. — Alissa Nutting

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. — Xun Zi

Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen. — Clark Gable

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say. — Finley Peter Dunne

More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking. — Deborah Tannen

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done. — Edmund Burke

Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know. — Rita Rudner

Oh, I always employ shock tactics with men of genius," said Mrs. Cotton. "And one has to employ them in public or the men of genius bolt. — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men. — Napoleon Bonaparte

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened. — Laverne Cox

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them. — Adam Smith

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public. — Lincoln Steffens

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man. — Winston Churchill

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public. — Noam Chomsky

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves. — Theodore Roosevelt

The study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public. — Thomas Jefferson

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public — Mark Twain

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. — Rutherford B. Hayes

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private. — Michel De Montaigne

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. — Ted Turner

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools? — B.F. Skinner

Public displays of inappropriate behavior are a favorite hobby of mine, a cheap thrill. — Willow Madison

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality. — Walter Lippmann

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic. — Edmund Burke

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read of men concerned in public affairs governing or massacring their species. — Mary Shelley

I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him. — William Hazlitt

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. — William Butler Yeats

When [Japanese] women encouraged men to bask in public glory, it reminded me of the way you would indulge a child with a sweet-bean treat. — Kittredge Cherry

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been. — Susan B. Anthony

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office. — Aristotle.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places. — Anthony Trollope

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men. — Michael Pollan

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. — Michel De Montaigne

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. — Jean Baudrillard

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. — Alexander Hamilton

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer. — Corra May Harris

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world. — Benjamin Disraeli

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. — Jimmy Breslin

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private. — Benjamin Franklin

When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power. — Madeleine M. Kunin

To make public atonement. There was a God who called upon men to tell their sins to earth as well as to heaven. Nothing — Oscar Wilde

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences. — Napoleon Bonaparte

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. — Georges Duhamel

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Men in particular," he went on, stating the loathsome truth, "are given a fair amount of leeway in the public eye. — Lucy Parker

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men. — Albert J. Nock

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. — Baruch Spinoza

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man
public opinion. — Clarence Darrow

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, What man does with his aloneness. — Kenneth Rexroth

Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges. — J.B. Priestley

The central thing about the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship to Himself, not public usefulness to men. — Oswald Chambers

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. — Francis Bacon

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. — Theodore Roosevelt

I swear by the self-assurance with which elderly men sitting in public tilt sideways to allow the gas to escape loudly. — Pawan Mishra

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. — Anna Quindlen

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public. — P.T. Barnum

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. — Oscar Wilde

Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book — Miriam Toews

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest. — Benjamin Butler

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em. — Will Rogers

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. — Virgil