Private Man Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with… — Joseph Addison
The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty… — Abraham Cowley
I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of… — Thomas Jefferson
Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine… — Samuel Adams
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want,… — Joan Didion
In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no… — Thomas More
A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen… — Thucydides
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. — Philip Massinger
Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life. — Lyn Nofziger
Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he… — Epictetus
I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to… — John Mahoney
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. — Tom Stoppard

Who Wrote These Private Man Quotes

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