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Quotes About Public

Lincoln seems to have had the unusual notion that a public servant's first duty is to help people, rather than to follow bureaucratic regulations.
~ David Herbert Donald
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
~ David Hume
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.
~ David Hume
Where the riches are engrossed by a few, these must contribute very largely to the supplying of the public necessities.
~ David Hume
Only an extreme control freak would withhold his academic transcripts from public view simply so as to avoid any public discussion of what possible ideological influence either Walder's impressive reading list or Len Davis's teaching about the political uses of fiction might have had upon an intellectually hungry twenty-one-year-old mind.
~ David J. Garrow
Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
~ David K. Shipler
I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red.
~ David Letterman
Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.
~ David Limbaugh
Before long, public libraries had stopped lending books, gauze face masks had become regular attire, and people had stopped shaking hands.
~ David M. Oshinsky
The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
~ David Mamet
Lucifer is God in the public school system
~ Vinnie Paz
If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God.
~ Henry Sloane Coffin
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.
~ Timothy Keller
We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.
~ Pat Buchanan
A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.
~ Bill Johnson
The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.
~ Oswald Chambers
It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.
~ James J. Kilpatrick
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
~ Mark Twain
My worth to God in public is what I am in private.
~ Oswald Chambers
To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .
~ Socrates
It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.
~ Soledad O'Brien
Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.
~ Star Jones
The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
~ Oswald Chambers
If you read only the New York Times- I said, 'Oh my God!' The readers of the New York Times are heading for a major, major breakdown shock if Trump is in fact elected.
~ Camille Paglia