Weal Quotes

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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 particular members of… — Alexander Hamilton
The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan… — Grover Cleveland
The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in… — Alexander Hamilton
The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of… — George Washington
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue.… — Benjamin Franklin
. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as… — Edgar Lee Masters
Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever any government shall be found… — George Mason
The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the… — Isabella Beeton
So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd… — Moby
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will… — Girolamo Savonarola
Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of… — Saint Augustine
Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own… — Swami Vivekananda
What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class… — Friedrich Engels
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God. — Julian of Norwich
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and… — H. L. Mencken
Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than… — James Russell Lowell
Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal. — Marcus Aurelius
To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal… — John Quincy Adams

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