Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good. — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good? — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. — Virgil Copy Share Image
Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
“For the consequences of brave actions are only temporary, while whatever is committed to writing for public good is of lasting benefit.” — Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
My goal is first of all to promote a public debate about where markets serve the public good and where they don't… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like we're stuck in the former mode of reacting because that's what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
The Obama administration doesn't see schools as a public good. It doesn't see schools as places where basically we can educate students… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Currying favor with special interests at the expense of the public good is a way for politicians to fund their campaigns and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“They challenged the widely accepted post–World War II consensus that an activist government was a force for public good. Instead, they argued… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Internet, too, has strong attributes of a public good, and has undermined the “private good” attributes of old media. Internet service… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Health is a worldwide public good. It requires global action guided by a sense of global solidarity. — Abiy Ahmed Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases. — John Wilbanks Copy Share Image