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• Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose… — Pope Benedict XVI
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• When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good… — Lewis Black
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• Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get… — Hillary Clinton
• Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. — Thomas Aquinas
• The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to… — James Madison
• Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the… — Algernon Sidney
• America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand
• I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass. — Laozi
• The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth.… — Pope John Paul II
• A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed… — James Madison

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