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No public man can be just a little crooked. -- Herbert Hoover
Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman. -- Paul Johnson
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. -- Abraham Lincoln
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. -- Dean Acheson
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
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
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 a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place. -- Francis Walsingham
Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf. -- Brent Musburger
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. -- Harold MacMillan
In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private. -- Benjamin Franklin
The excellence of a man is a benefit to the public -- Proverb
The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public. -- P. T. Barnum
If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it. -- Steve Forbes
Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. -- Jean Baudrillard
A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public. -- Dwight L. Moody
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. -- Oscar Wilde
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. -- Jonathan Swift
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. -- Grantland Rice
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. -- Thomas Jefferson
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority. -- Sophocles
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. -- Thomas Dewey
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. -- Thomas Dewey
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. -- Leslie Stephen
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. -- George McGovern
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. -- Nancy Gibbs
Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent. -- Phil Donahue
Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools? -- B. F. Skinner
A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower. -- Gautama Buddha
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. -- Tom Robbins
Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side. -- Thomas Reed
A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views. -- Charles Dickens
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. -- Walter Savage Landor
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. -- Virgil
The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters. -- Edith Hamilton
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. -- Tom Stoppard
In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney. -- Jacques Verges
The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. -- Dean Acheson
No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . . -- Marsilio Ficino
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public. -- George Berkeley
The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man. -- Winston Churchill
A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat. -- James Pinckney Miller
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. -- Jon Meacham
A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community. -- Richardson Wright
To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good. -- Samuel Parr
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing -- Thucydides
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic. -- Edmund Burke
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge. -- Charles Babbage
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated. -- Benjamin Mkapa
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
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness. -- Kenneth Rexroth
How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly? -- Richard Donner
But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. -- Charles Dickens
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest. -- Benjamin Butler
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. -- Edmund Randolph
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. -- Ulysses S. Grant
When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government. -- Jacob K. Javits
I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private. -- Michel de Montaigne
Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living. -- James Gandolfini
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion. -- Clarence Darrow
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public. -- Franz Grillparzer
A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. -- John Milton
A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. -- Richard M. Nixon
The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust. -- Millard Fillmore
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so. -- Cornelius Vanderbilt
Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker. -- Mike McCurry
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one. -- Charles Caleb Colton
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel -- Plutarch
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless. -- W. H. Auden
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him. -- William Hazlitt
Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office. -- Warren G. Harding
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity. -- James K. Polk
Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your lover's hand in public -- Josh Lanyon
Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private. -- William Blackstone
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. -- John Adams
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform. -- Euripides
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way. -- Thornton Wilder
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. -- Peter Singer
When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened. -- Laverne Cox
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world. -- Benjamin Disraeli
One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report. [Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.] -- Quintus Ennius
In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence. -- Jonathan Swift
the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public. -- Thomas Jefferson
The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one. -- Anna Quindlen
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, under the same conditions? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications. -- Richard Steele
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it. -- Jewel
Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others. -- Joseph Butler
If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been. -- Susan B. Anthony
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson. -- Voltaire
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 properly in the public eye. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
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, but the third is the most certain. -- Georges Pompidou
I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end. -- Rutherford B. Hayes

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