Public Quotes

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. View quote
John Adams
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. View quote
Chester A. Arthur
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. View quote
Robert Morley
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it. View quote
Nat King Cole
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical! View quote
Margaret Fuller
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. View quote
Edith Sitwell
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. (Jonathan Swift)
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. View quote
William Dean Howells
There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. View quote
Aesop
How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly? View quote
Richard Donner
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. View quote
Aaliyah
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. View quote
Martin Van Buren
The public have neither shame or gratitude. View quote
William Hazlitt
I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. View quote
George Soros
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. (Solon)
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. View quote
Felix Adler
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail, none of which is easy ! View quote
Anne, Princess Royal
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone