Quotes About Public

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

You cannot say— A body translates its you— you there, hey you even as it loses the location of its mouth. When you lay your body in the body entered as if skin and bone were public places, when you lay your body in the body entered as if you're the ground you walk on, you know no memory should live in these memories becoming the body of you.

The conditions that created the modern American public library are still relevant to any discussion about contemporary and future issues facing those who care about libraries, specifically trustees. To serve as a trustee of a public library places a citizen on an even higher ground shaped by the better part of modern American history. To be a trustee of a public library places one very close to major transformations in American life and culture.

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

By analyzing public data with the help of computers, people can uncover secrets without ever seeing a classified database.

People who live a private life want to live in truth forever and without lies. The problem with lies, they keep on coming back that makes private life public.

Politicians are heroes too. You can even find their names in major roads and highways.

If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.

The medical profession and the leading academic institutions where mind control research was done have not yet provided a meaningful public accounting, financial or ethical, of this experimentation.

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that working for you?

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it

privacy requires a public façade

Much of the difficulty which mental institutions have in their relations with the psychopath springs from a lack of awareness in the public that he exists.

Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

The multitude is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down - for the novelty of the thing.

In truth you cannot separate them, your public being and your private self.

The year now is 1774. Poseurs or not, it is time to grow up. It is time to enter the public realm, the world of public acts and public attitudes. Everything that happens now will happen in the light of history. It is not a midday luminary, but a corpse-candle to the intellect; at best, it is a secondhand lunar light, error-breeding, sand-blind and parched.

the English will forgive a king anything, until he tries to tax them.