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Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

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Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism. ↗

— Dora Russell

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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

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Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit. ↗

— John Grierson

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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals. ↗

— Harold Washington

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A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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