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#public good

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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

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


Adam Smith


#done #good #i #known #much

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.


James Bovard


#bad #bad government #docile #good #good government






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