Public Quotes
These are some of the best 'Public' quotations and sayings.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes.
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Individuals are occasionally guided by reason, crowds never.
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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
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Public opinion, or public sentiment, is able to sustain, or to pull down any law of the commonwealth.
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That is, in a great degree, true of all men, which was said of the Athenians, that they were like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
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The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; . . . but there are no certainties.
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Very few public men but look upon the public as their debtors and their prey; so much for their pride and honesty.
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Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take place of pleasures, profits, and all other private gratifications. Whoever wants this motive, is an open enemy, or an inglorious neuter to mankind, in proportion to the misapplied advantages with which nature and fortune have blessed him.
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