Private Quotes

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Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate… — George Soros
At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment], the general, if… — Joseph Story
For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the… — Jerry I. Porras
Some things are too important to be left to the private sector — George Galloway
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is… — Neil Kinnock
We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us. — John Galsworthy
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. — E. M. Forster
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs. — Dana Rohrabacher
The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals — Lawrence Summers
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist… — Margaret Thatcher
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has… — Richard P. Feynman
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved. — Vladimir Lenin
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women. — Andrea Dworkin
I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me ...… — Unknown Author
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest… — Diane Ravitch
Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die. — John Stossel
The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually… — Lewis Mumford
No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and… — James A. Michener
I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country. — Zachary Taylor
Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles. — John Wycliffe
As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its… — Kathleen Sebelius
The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a… — Unknown Author
I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text. — Pat Mora
The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find… — Richard Rodriguez

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