#public good

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#column #done #ego #fun #good

I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#efficient #good #i #information #insight

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? ↗

— Joseph Howe

#before #believe #down #good #i

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. ↗

— Ralph Thomas Walker

#architects #been #book #contrary #fellow

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country. ↗

— George Washington

#approbation #country #founded #good #honors

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#been #belongs #between #clash #common

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. ↗

— William Blackstone

#every #good #individual #interested #more

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#believe #best #care #fiscally #good

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#become #christian #delayed #efforts #every

My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#career #coincide #doing #get #good