Public Weal Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal. — Alexander Pope
• The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the… — Alexander Hamilton
• The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such… — Alexander Hamilton
• The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each… — George Washington
• I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in… — Benjamin Franklin
• Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever any government… — George Mason
• Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to… — John Quincy Adams
• The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. — Michel de Montaigne
• Let not the poet shed tears only for the public weal. — Henry David Thoreau

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