Quotes About Public

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

And Donald Trump? That man literally has people shouting the n word at his rallies and he doesn't address it, which is astounding to me. He's a terrible person.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

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.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

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