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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Money, American, Until

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

Political, Away, Vote

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

Life, Good, Everything

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln

Nothing, Everything, Succeed

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke

General, Popular, Welfare

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln

Nothing, Succeed, Fail

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham Lincoln

Impossible, Decisions, Makes

Public opinion in this country is everything.
Abraham Lincoln

Everything, Country, Opinion

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Best, Him

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson

Trust, Himself, Consider

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Mark Twain

Opinion, Worth, Whose

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'
Mark Twain

Merely, Multiplied

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Courage, Today

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
Dalai Lama

Important, Human, Values

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Marilyn Monroe

Beautiful, Else, Anyone

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill

Opinion, Published

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Warren Buffett

Money, Hope, Down

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Truth, Him

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Support, Stands

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury

Education, Money, End

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Opinion, Alien, Ruler

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Genius, Except

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar Wilde

Artist, Critic, Educate

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt

American, Criticism, President

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Best, Business, Wisdom

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin

Business, Mistake

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis Diller

Women, Football, Play

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry

Nothing, Jealous, Give

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Education, Bad, Same

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
Marilyn Monroe

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