Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” — Plato Copy Share Image
I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs. — Christy Romano Copy Share Image
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec. — Lucien Bouchard Copy Share Image
In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred,… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Edelman diversified into public affairs in the late '60s with important programs for the Concorde SST, gaining landing rights at JFK Airport… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, judges and governors shall… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
These Muslim Brotherhood fronts - the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America -… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“In a little while it was taken up in the streets and along the countryside. All through the North and in some… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“Chief Factors Limiting Access to Facts: 1)Artificial censorship 2)Limitations of social contact 3)Comparatively meager time in a day for paying attention to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Konstantin Levin regarded his brother as a man of immense intellect and culture, as generous in the highest sense of the word,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Because in [Lenin's] eyes the workers were only workers and not also customers, he believed they were already slaves under capitalism, and… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
“If I were to name the one crying evil of American life, Mr. Derrick, it would be the indifference of the better… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
“Totalitarianism is the result of the hypostasis of the political and the correlative lowering of life as well as the individual. This… — Michel Henry Copy Share Image
“There is hardly any political question in the United States that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question. From… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The masses, on admitting their own incapacity to govern themselves, have elected me as their head By doing so, they have clearly… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image