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Letter "P" » public good
«Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.»
Author: Nathan Hale (Soldier) | Keywords: honorable, public good
«The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights»
«I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.»
Author: Adam Smith | Keywords: affected, public good
«The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public good?»
«Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.»
«Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual manners for the public good»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | Keywords: public good
«I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.»
«In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.»
«The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.»

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