Public corporation may refer to:
- Government-owned corporation
- Public company, i.e. a limited liability company that offers its securities for sale to the general public.
- Statutory corporation, i.e. a corporation created by statute, that is owned in part or in whole by a government (examples being are municipal councils, bar councils, universities).
Famous quotes containing the words public and/or corporation:
“The rumor of a great city goes out beyond its borders, to all the latitudes of the known earth. The city becomes an emblem in remote minds; apart from the tangible export of goods and men, it exerts its cultural instrumentality in a thousand phases.”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)