To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
James Monroe

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.
James Monroe

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.
James Monroe

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.
Floyd Abrams

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
Floyd Abrams

It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this.
Floyd Abrams

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
Floyd Abrams

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
Floyd Abrams

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Iris Murdoch

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
Leo Burnett

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
Carroll Quigley

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
Richard J. Daley

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
Lewis Grizzard

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Grantland Rice

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
Irvine Welsh

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
Hernando Cortes

So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you.
Reba McEntire

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Walter Annenberg

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
James Cash Penney