Best Public Good Quotes

87 Public Good quotes by 73 unique authors

Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with… — William J Doherty
Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation. — Charles P. Kindleberger
I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to,… — Jonathan Mayhew
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is… — Cardinal Richelieu
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men,… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. — Carl Bernstein
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… — Joseph Howe
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what… — Neil Abercrombie
All geniuses born women are lost to the public good. — Mary Pipher
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the… — Paul Hawken
Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged… — Benjamin Franklin
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good. — David Price
If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing? — Anita Roddick
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… — Joseph Lancaster
And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest… — G. Edward Griffin
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… — James Bovard
It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people,… — James Madison
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. — Tacitus
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one. — Thomas Jefferson
Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it. — Thornton Wilder
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for one night, we… — Mark Udall
The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level… — John Ralston Saul

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