Common Benefit Quotes

Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

How few aim at the good of the whole, without aiming too much at the prosperity of the parts!

Goods are meant for all.

Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.

When fear, especially a fear for one’s own well-being, clouds decisions on public policy, the public ends up falling into a solipsistic trap – each individual is so concerned with his or her own particular future, that one fails to consider the best interests of the community as a whole.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

Liberty … is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.

That government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; ... and that when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and undefeasible right to reform, alter or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.

The only public good is that which assures the private good of the citizens.

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

The supreme inspiration is the common weal.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

The straight path is not one that is reserved for a few. This should be taken by more of us.

We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.

It's hard to mobilize various interest groups ... when its for the benefit of everyone.

That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.