Quotes about Public

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible; free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

I like to succeed in public, but to fail in secret.

A brand is no longer what it tells consumers it is—it is what consumers tell each other it is.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.