Top Private Quotes
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
Martin Van Buren
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
Chester A. Arthur
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell
It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.
Portia de Rossi
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
Billie Jean King
Gerald R. Ford 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Chester A. Arthur 
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John Conyers 
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I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it.
Robert M. Gates 
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I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.
Stuart Symington
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Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
John Adams
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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin
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I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana
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Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
Barbara Castle
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
H. G. Wells
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