Common good Quote by Mark Goulston

As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser…

— Jason Stearns

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well…

— David Hume

[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than…

— Algernon Sidney

“...the special interests are almost everybody. Everybody perceives they stand to lose if the economy is allowed to evolve. They are right if their…

— William W. Lewis

Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

— Joel Miller

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

— Michel Temer

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

— Robert Scheer

“The public good must come before private interests.”

— Bryant McGill

Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims to the…

— Robert Dickson Crane

One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what…

— Bernard de Mandeville