#public man

No public man can be just a little crooked. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#just #little #man #public #public man

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place. ↗

— Francis Walsingham

#bear #call #done #god #honest

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#closed #comes #every #him #his

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#life #man #politician #private #public

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#distracts #ego #great #looking #man

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#forget #his #individual #issue #loses