Marie de Jars Quotes

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

The leader is supposed to represent the community, the public good. He's supposed to be the focal point and the guide and the inspiration, and to represent a concern for the public good. The trouble is, the tragic problem is, very often, when you are a leader and pursue the public good, it may be at the expense of your private interests in a very drastic way

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

The good of the people is the chief law.

If you accept the privilege of public service, you had better understand the responsibilities of public service.

The legitimate object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves.

The end of government is the good of mankind.

It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun.

For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often get criticized as I try to exercise what I believe to be right. However, if you mind such criticism, I think you can't protect people's lives.

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

Everyone thinks chiefly of his own, hardly ever of the public interest.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and trustees are created for the benefit of the public.

If they think its such a sacrifice to go into public service, then they should stay the heck out.