Character Quote by Samuel Adams Download Open image “The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.” — Samuel Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Curious Inspirational Men Not voting Politics Virtue Voting Voting founding fathers
Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous… — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty… — Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
I try not to blame the public, because the public - men, especially - have seen not great portrayals of women in supporting roles,… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures. — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only distract and… — Travis Mathews Copy Share Image
The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
