Quotes of: Public-man Keyword

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Abraham Lincoln

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

Richard Donner

I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

William Banting

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Thomas Dewey

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.

Robert Vaughn

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral valu...

A Voice in the Wind

Justice is the result of public opinion.

Chinese

There’s nothing like a good murder to remind us all how much love there is in the world. That’s what this guy’s probably thinking, as he stands alone and naked—emotionally, not physically—as he’s obviously wearing clothes made for another...

Seven Sisters Sinister Murder Mystery Dinner

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are d...

Theodore Roosevelt

I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

Phil Donahue

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

Jacob K. Javits

Watch a man--say, a politician--being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstration of what both he and his interrogators learned in school: all questions have answers, and it is a good thing to give an answer even if there is none ...

Neil Postman

Gamblers do not contribute to the public welfare.

Hebrew

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

Jack Abramoff

The political reputation of Servius rests upon his organization of society according to a fixed scale of rank and fortune. He originated the census, a measure of the highest utility to a state destined, as Rome was, to future preeminence; for by mean...

The Early History of Rome:

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

Jewel

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Mary Pickford

In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

Jacques Verges

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

James Gandolfini

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Noam Chomsky