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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. — Calvin Coolidge
Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. — Albert Schweitzer
Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these… — John Vianney
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it… — William Wilberforce
The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on… — Harry Golden
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific… — Andy Grove
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. — Evan Esar
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. — Miguel de Cervantes
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. — Bernard Nathanson
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that… — Abraham Lincoln
Soldiers must possess integrity in order to build trust and confidence in themselves, our leadership, and the American public. Among the things I've learned during… — Glen E. Morrell
Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and… — John F. Kerry
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. — Robert Higgs
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may… — Lewis H. Lapham
The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible… — Henry David Thoreau
Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we… — Olga Korbut
For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence… — Saint Augustine
It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't like the swimmer… — Leisel Jones
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal. — Alexander Pope
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering… — Winston Churchill
We're doing some very exciting, bold things, pioneering content on mobile and for broadband, ... My vision is to say, as we take the strategy… — Tim Duncan
It's been a moment since I've done some public speaking. I find now-a-days it's best to keep quiet. — Drake
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. — George W. Crane
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave… — Alexander Graham Bell

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