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110 quotesIf there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.
Politicians and Politics
Kin Hubbard
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American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Public Opinion
Hubert H. Humphrey
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The public school has become the established church of secular society.
Education
Ivan Illich
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Mediocrity
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
Welfare
Italian Proverb
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With publicity comes humiliation.
Publicity
Tama Janowitz
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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Politicians and Politics
Thomas Jefferson
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When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson
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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.
Teams and Teamwork
Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson
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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Entertainment
Samuel Johnson
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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Humor
Samuel Johnson
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Libraries
Samuel Johnson
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The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
Justice
Junius
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The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
Ideas
John Kane
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I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.
Popularity
John Keats
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
Conversation
Thomas Kempis
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The basis of effective government if public confidence.
Government
John F. Kennedy
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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
Respectability
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Passion
Alphonse De Lamartine
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The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
Media
Christopher Lasch
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The public seldom forgive twice.
Public
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Politicians and Politics
Abraham Lincoln
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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
Leaders and Leadership
Abraham Lincoln
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What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Publicity
Abraham Lincoln
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Morality
Thomas B. Macaulay
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun