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  • Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

    "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by John Walker (p. 383), 2001.
  • I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.

    Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu
  • Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine what they will give and grant of their substance for the Administration of public affairs.

    Men   Giving   Community  
    John White, Cecil Calvert Baltimore (2d Baron), Charles Hudson, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1904). “The planting of colonies in New England”
  • Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

    Views   People   Tone  
    "Despite setbacks, Frum beats on" by Daniel Libit, www.politico.com. September 01, 2009.
  • Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

    "Q&A : Ron Silver on the Price of Activism". Interview With Barbara Isenberg, articles.latimes.com. June 07, 1992.
  • A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.

    Mother   Children   Kids  
  • Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

    Men   Giving   Desire  
    Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”, p.102
  • Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

    Abuse   Usual   Goes On  
    John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Lester Jesse Cappon, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, The University of North Carolina Press
  • General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

    Men   Judging   Doubt  
  • The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and can with difficulty be learnt in any other place, than in the central councils, to which a knowledge of them will be brought by the representatives of every part of the empire. Yet some knowledge of the affairs, and even of the laws of all the states, ought to be possessed by the members from each of the states.

    Law   Federalism   Unions  
    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2012). “Selected Federalist Papers”, p.127, Courier Corporation
  • I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

  • We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

    Believe   Men   Greek  
  • With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

    Skills   Numbers   People  
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”
  • The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  • In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.

    Eye   Men   World  
    David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1807, Delphi Classics
  • But the frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essentially say there is no difference between information operations, public affairs and psychological operations. It's all one and the same. They have a new name for that too, it's called Information Engagement.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.

    Bernard Bailyn (1992). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.173, Harvard University Press
  • I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that I haven't seen something like that before.

  • I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

    John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.593
  • Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

  • These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

    Luck   Politics   Chance  
  • Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.

    Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.237, Penguin
  • The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be dictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.

    Men   Law   Practice  
    Speech in the House of Lords, February 22, 1743.
  • We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

    Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.31, Courier Corporation
  • The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do."

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

  • The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired from their infancy the habit of discussing, of deliberating, and of judging of public affairs, it was in these assemblies of towns or districts that the sentiments of the people were formed in the first place, and their resolutions were taken from the beginning to the end of the disputes and the war with Great Britain.

    Education   War   Taken  
  • This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than for all of you to continue to work in public affairs and be interested in them, not only to bring up a family, but also give part of your time to your community, your state, and your country.

    Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.621, Best Books on
  • That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

    Herbert Spencer (1874). “The Study of Sociology”, p.153, London, D. Appleton
  • Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

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