Quotes About Public

At stake was the virtue of free expression, and Franklin summed up the Enlightenment position in a sentence that is now framed on newsroom walls: "Printers are educated in the belief that when men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; and that when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

Franklin and, by extension, the Junto were particularly fond of things that could help the public as well as themselves.

By war's end Eisenhower had not only masterfully completed the acquisition and deployment of his chosen leadership techniques but succeeded in projecting their appeal to wide segments of the American public. Both political parties sought him as a presidential candidate.

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

there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.

My experience has been that at its best, news reporting is an approximation of the slant on the truth that reporters, editors, and advertisers want the public to know.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

The entry of a hero on the public scene goes unnoticed," the great A. J. Liebling wrote in The Earl of Louisiana, "but his rentrée always has an eager press.

I propose another explanation: The reason so many Americans have become alienated from government since the poll of 1964 is that government really has become more incompetent and really has become alienated from the public it is supposed to serve. Political cycles and political fashion have nothing to do with it. American government isn't what it used to be.

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

While Obama merely bowed clumsily in the direction of Idiot America, John McCain set up housekeeping there.

things, require the state to register sex offenders and notify the public of their presence in the community.

Voters did say 'repeal health care ' they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

There is," he said, "a great sense of loneliness in the discharge of high public duties. The moment of decision is one of isolation.

A Christian writer has summed this up well: "The 'Christian state' is one that gives no special public privilege to Christian citizens but seeks justice for all as a matter of principle."6

What holds our society together is not force or even laws but moral suasion. Presidents rule not by fiat, but by the sufferance of free men. Without the collective goodwill of 200 million Americans, glibly called "public confidence," government is impotent, anarchy—or worse—inescapable.

We live in a society in which all transcendent values have been removed and thus there is no moral standard by which anyone can say right is right and wrong is wrong. What we live in is, in the memorable image of Richard Neuhaus, a naked public square.

The naked public square cannot remain naked, the direction is toward the state-as-church, toward totalitarianism."6

But the most dangerous consequence of the naked public square is the loss of community.