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"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share


"In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised    Share

"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4H Clubthe hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history. "

Agnew, Spiro T. on uncategorised    Share

"My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised    Share

"Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken. "

Swift, Jonathan on uncategorised    Share

"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. "

Thoreau, Henry David on uncategorised    Share

"But not the first Illusion, the new earth,The march upon the solitary fire,The casting of the dice of death and birthAgainst a giant, for a blind desire,The stream uncrossed, the promise still untried,The metal sleeping in the mountainside. "

Benet, Stephen Vincent on uncategorised    Share

"I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. "

Petronius on uncategorised    Share

"Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically. "

John Paul VI on uncategorised    Share

"Gentlemen do not read each others mail. "

Stimson, Henry Lewis on uncategorised    Share

"According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised
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"Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private. I have urged Congressexcept when the Nations security is at staketo take action to that end. "

Johnson, Lyndon B. on uncategorised    Share

"[1. ] The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power. [2. ] A concise and clear set of rules for campus conduct should be established, transmitted to incoming freshmen, and enforcedwith immediate expulsion the penalty for serious violations. [3. ] It is folly for universities confronted with their current crisis in our turbulent times to open their doors to thousands of patently unqualified students. [4. ] No negotiations under threat or coercion. [5. ] No amnesty for lawlessness or violence. [6. ] Any organization which publicly declares its intention to violate the rules of an academic community and which carries out that declaration should be barred from campus. [7. ] We must look to how we are raising our children. [8. ] We must look to the university that receives those children. Is it prepared to deal with the challenge of the nondemocratic Left?[9. ] Let us support those courageous administrators, professors and students on our college campuses who are standing up for the traditional rights of the academic community. "

Agnew, Spiro T. on uncategorised    Share

"Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been interesting and somewhat dramatic. The account of the meeting was told me by Miss Maria Thoreau [Henry Thoreaus aunt]Henry, why are you here? Waldo, why are you not here?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on uncategorised    Share

"We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. "

Douglas, William O. on uncategorised    Share

"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised    Share

"Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em. "

Truman, Harry S on uncategorised    Share

"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. "

Madison, James on uncategorised    Share

"When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating. "

Truman, Harry S on uncategorised    Share

"The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest. "

Taft, William Howard on uncategorised    Share

"I am deeply touchednot as deeply touched as you have been coming to this dinner, but nevertheless it is a sentimental occasion. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised    Share

"Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!"

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised    Share

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