He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose. — Calvin Coolidge 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
Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones. — Walter Lippmann 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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame — John Adams Copy Share Image
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent… — David Hume 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
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a… — David Frum Copy Share Image
In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California,… — Preston Manning 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
“Adults are not supposed to play. We are supposed to stress, have worries and be too busy dealing with life's problems. But… — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
As the chief public affairs officer at MoveOn and an MSNBC political analyst, you can often find me talking in front of… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women… — Rebecca West 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
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
There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his… — Walter Lippmann 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
“Thomas Jefferson's Letter to John Holmes on the Missouri Statehood Question – April 20, 1820 I thank you, dear Sir, for the… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“Why, how can you ask such a question? You are a republican." A republican! Yes; but that word specifies nothing. Res publica;… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 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
“Modern civilization seems to be incapable of producing people endowed with imagination, intelligence, and courage. In practically every country there is a… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs. — Mohammad Hamid Ansari 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
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato Copy Share Image
We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as harmless but as a useless character. — Pericles Copy Share Image