Quotes
Quotes about Public
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I would fain see them do something for us."
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.
The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [Fr., Le public! le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire un public?]
He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [Ger., Wer dem Publicum dient, ist ein armes Thier; Er qualt sich ab, niemand bedankt sich dafur.]
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public.
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute laws which the people have made and within the limits of a constitution which they have established.
The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
