Public Spirited Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

• The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
• In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in… — Edward Alsworth Ross
• An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular… — Joseph Pulitzer
• Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and… — William Howard Taft
• A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to. There… — Dave Barry
• I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a… — John Updike
• The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a… — George Stephanopoulos
• There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. — Xunzi
• I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is… — Ronald Reagan
• Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and… — Joseph Pulitzer
• It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when… — W. Somerset Maugham
• There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most public-spirited generation since the 1960s. There is an… — Tim O'Reilly

Who Wrote These Public Spirited Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 13 Public Spirited Quotes as follows:

• 2 Public Spirited Quotes by Joseph Pulitzer
• 1 Public Spirited Quote by Xunzi
• 1 Public Spirited Quote by W. Somerset Maugham
• 1 Public Spirited Quote by Tim O'Reilly
• 1 Public Spirited Quote by Ronald Reagan
• 1 Public Spirited Quote by Milton Friedman
• 1 Public Spirited Quote by Edward Alsworth Ross
• 1 Public Spirited Quote by William Howard Taft
• 1 Public Spirited Quote by Dave Barry
• 1 Public Spirited Quote by John Updike
• 1 Public Spirited Quote by George Stephanopoulos