Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs. — Bernard Crick 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
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics. — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. — Woodrow Wilson 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
Every party conference season, I'm struck by how much is spent on lobbying by the public affairs industry. — Kemi Badenoch 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
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
He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the… — Hugo Black 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
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
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I… — James K. Polk 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
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
“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
... [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
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
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
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
“To narrow natural rights to such neat slogans as "liberty, equality, fraternity" or "life, liberty, property," . . . was to ignore… — Russell Kirk 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
“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 must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
“We debate sometimes what is to be the future of this nation when we think that in a few years public affairs… — Booth Tarkington 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
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“The effect of modern war is to eliminate retrogressive types, while sparing the technocracy and increasing its hold upon public affairs.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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