Public Man Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
— Dean Acheson
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No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
— Herbert Hoover
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There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest,…
— Georges Pompidou
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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
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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts…
— Lord Acton
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The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.
— Charles Dickens
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I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of…
— Francis Walsingham
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The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.
— Winston Churchill
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
— Abraham Lincoln
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
— Richard M. Nixon
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An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do…
— William Butler Yeats
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Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.
— Paul Johnson
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No public man can be just a little crooked.
— Herbert Hoover
Who Wrote These Public Man Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Public Man Quotes as follows: