Quotes 261 till 280 of 472.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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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.
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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
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Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Hoover Off the Record (1934) door Theodore G. Joslin -
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
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Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
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Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
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