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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 would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it. -- Alexander Hamilton
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. -- Jessica Savitch
If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing? -- Anita Roddick
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. -- Adam Smith
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. -- William Blackstone
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. -- George Will
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. -- Nathan Hale
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. -- Thomas a Kempis
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country. -- George Washington
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good. -- Anita Roddick
To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up. -- George Herbert Mead
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. -- James K. Polk
If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing. -- Charles Krauthammer
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree. -- William J. Clinton
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The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests. -- Eugene Jarecki
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 the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. -- James Bovard
I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous. -- Joseph Stiglitz
The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it. -- Kevin Rudd
While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good. -- Solomon Ortiz
We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer. -- Evgeny Morozov
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. -- Ralph Thomas Walker
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 will begin to rekindle that common spark that brought us here from 50 different states and widely diverging backgrounds to serve the public good. -- Mark Udall
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals. -- Lysander Spooner
What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.' -- Michael Ignatieff
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 practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good. -- Paul Hawken
Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost. -- Seth Berkley
The public is always good. -- Franz Liszt
Public service is good for you, -- Jim Flaherty
A good king is a public servant. -- Ben Jonson
If the public likes you, you're good. -- Mickey Spillane
The noblest motive is the public good. -- Virgil
Always maintain good relations with your public. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Republicans have never been good at public relations. -- Tammy Bruce
Good public speaking is based on good private thinking -- Scott Berkun
All you owe the public is a good performance. -- Humphrey Bogart
Public is a good expert on making bad mistakes! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good. -- William H. Prescott
The price of power is responsibility for the public good. -- Bill Vaughan
All geniuses born women are lost to the public good. -- Mary Pipher
Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good. -- David Price
The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good. -- George Dyson
The only thing you owe the public is a good performance. -- Humphrey Bogart
I owe the public just one thing - a good performance. -- Bob Gibson
I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes. -- Bob Kerrey
Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments. -- John Rawls
He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful -- Philip Massinger
Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? -- Rudyard Kipling
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. -- Ambrose Bierce
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. -- Carl Bernstein
Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation. -- Charles P. Kindleberger
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems. -- Jaime Lerner
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. -- Abraham Lincoln
The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking. -- Ronan Farrow
public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. -- Sybille Bedford
Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. -- Albert Schweitzer
Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness. -- Samuel Adams
The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. -- Elliott Abrams
Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy. -- Bob Schieffer
If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health. -- Arthur Caplan
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain -- Robert Kennedy
I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at. -- Terry Bradshaw
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so. -- Tacitus
It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. -- Billy Collins
Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service. -- Jonathan Haidt
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. -- Anthony S. Fauci
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. -- Anthony S. Fauci
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. -- Leo Burnett
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. -- Leo Burnett
If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. -- Mickey Spillane
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief -- Leo Burnett
How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good? -- Ashleigh Brilliant
I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity. -- John Keats
I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. -- Bill Gates
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. -- James Otis
The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good. -- Alexander Hamilton
Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind. -- Bruce Springsteen
I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons. -- Gary Cohn
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it. -- Thornton Wilder
Fans today don't only care about achievement, but about good looks, good public appearance and good lifestyle. -- Herbert Hainer
Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside. -- Alan Cohen
Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases. -- John Wilbanks
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art. -- Dave Barry
Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good. -- Herbert Boyer
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible. -- Sheena Iyengar
The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one. -- Mariella Frostrup
I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public. -- Joanna Garcia
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. -- Virgil
I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions. -- Jay Weatherill
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone. -- Bill de Blasio
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom. -- Patrick Henry
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States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable -- Murray Rothbard
To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel. -- David Alan Grier
If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public. -- Douglas Coupland
There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air. -- Eric Maskin
Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise. -- Konosuke Matsushita
In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye. -- Galcher Lustwerk
I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces. -- Anne Waldman
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. -- Rowan Williams
The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation. -- Charles W. Pickering
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. -- Tacitus
I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good. -- Branch Rickey
Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one. -- Miyamoto Musashi
For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting. -- danah boyd
The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good. -- Joel Bakan
Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions. -- Mariana Mazzucato
To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good. -- Samuel Parr
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective. -- Ayn Rand
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. -- Paul Wellstone
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing -- Thucydides

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