Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely… — Nancy Pearcey
Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the Church. Faith is… — Vincent Nichols
I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at… — Bella Heathcote
What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality… — Leslie Howard
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. — Joseph Heller
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view. — Ingrid Bergman
Many Americans today, just as they did 200 years ago, feel burdened, stifled, and sometimes even oppressed by government that has grown too large, too… — Ronald Reagan
Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead… — Edward Everett Hale
Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom… — Dorothy Thompson
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to… — Henry David Thoreau
Government has laid its hand on health, housing, farming, industry, commerce, education, and to an ever-increasing degree interferes with the people's right to know. Government… — Ronald Reagan
Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen. — John Marshall
In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched… — Mark Twain
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Surely the men who submit and the women who submit, and the believing men and the believing women, and the obeying men and the obeying… — Quran
Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover… — Francis Bacon
The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice… — Jimmy Carter
What this country needs is less public speaking and more private thinking — Unknown Author
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates… — Henry David Thoreau

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