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

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
George Washington

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
Walt Disney

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

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
Edward Kennedy

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.
Edward Kennedy

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma Bombeck

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell

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

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

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway

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

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
Walt Whitman

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
Jonathan Swift

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
Michael Jackson

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Charles de Gaulle

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
Voltaire