#public

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#government #politics #republican #elections

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#charity #public-service #volunteerism #service

What is seen by mind, is an environmental image that projected by public consciousness in vicinity. ↗

— Toba Beta

#projected-image #public-consciousness #environmentalism

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#harmony #human #human values #i #important

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction. ↗

— Robert Welch

#distinction #hundred #knew #made #meant

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic. ↗

— Robert Welch

#democracies #everywhere #first #forget #great

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule. ↗

— Robert Welch

#american republic #constitution #deliberate #division #emphatic

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts. ↗

— William Weld

#afford #districts #grown #had #lot

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#appearing #band #could #disc #i

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps. ↗

— Johann Hari

#britain #elizabeth-ii #monarchy #monarchy-of-the-uk #postage-stamps