Quotes about Public

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising," announced Lord Peter sententiously, "is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

Because of who I am, people ask for photos. I can't just say no to everyone.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it."

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.