Franklin Knight Lane Quotes

Common carriers exercise a sort of public office, and have duties to perform in which the public is interested.... Their business is, therefore, affected with a public interest

Those who do not serve the public interest should not hold a public license.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and trustees are created for the benefit of the public.

Join cooperatively with one another, put aside self-interest, and take on service to the public …

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by becoming necessary.

I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.

For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

Everyone thinks chiefly of his own, hardly ever of the public interest.

A government job is an occasion for public service, not special privilege. The undivided loyalty to the public interest required of the governorship makes it inappropriate to keep the profusion of gifts that arrive every day at this office.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not to those who receive the trust.