Bother Quote by Walter E. Williams

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

— Alexander Hamilton

It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense…

— Alexander Hamilton

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily…

— Randal Marlin

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

— William Blackstone

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

— Joel Miller

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and…

— Neil Abercrombie

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped…

— Anonymous

When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

— William H. Prescott

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

— Charles P. Kindleberger

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I…

— Adam Smith

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

— Ashleigh Brilliant