And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.
We’re allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
I did my first interview in 1995 and was asked about my private life. I said, ‘Why would I tell you? I don’t see the logic in anyone knowing that about me. For whose sake? Nobody wins.’
I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do.
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.
My life style in a sense is kind of private.
What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don’t have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It’s not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It’s the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is ‘Delete.’
Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order – and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.
Roman’s wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
It’s very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music. Success and fame are two different things. And so I feel the success is always towards the music, which means that I can have a very normal and private lifestyle.
Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
I probably wouldn’t be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I’ll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.
The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody’s private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card – down from about one-third of workers in labor’s heydays in the 1950s.
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
And I certainly won’t lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.
I don’t think you have the right to shout about other people’s private life.
I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.
He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.
The post of honour is a private station.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
I had attracted large investments into information technology and built infrastructure in Hyderabad, including India’s first greenfield airport, apart from attracting the country’s first private sector investments in power generation.
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us for our attention as they explain their plans for how they will represent us, no one should be surprised at our interest in how they represent themselves.
I’m more private than people realize. I’m not that easy to get to know.
I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.
As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won’t use them for my own press.
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
Private schools do confer other advantages, of course: whether it be networks, or a sense of confidence that can shade into a poisonous sense of social superiority.
Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.
In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation’s seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.
I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
I’m just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men’s private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Photos were seen as the most private type of content, and ‘Instagram’ really flipped that on its head and said photos can be really public.
Our aim is to set some kind of benchmark and standards for transparency and governance in private philanthropy.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives.
We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support.
I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.
Being English, we’re polite and reserved, we don’t express our opinions; we’re very private people.
