...I still have faith occasionally in the brotherhood of man, and in spite of all the tragedies that have intervened since [1945],... believe that sometime, somehow, all the nations of the world can work together for the common good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the com...munity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Ever...ything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially ...if the decisions are made behind locked doors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issues... not from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a...bout how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hamilton took as his major premise the evil nature of man and followed with the consequent need for an authoritative government in... the hands of the propertied, who had a "stake in society" and therefore had most to gain or lose by government; Jefferson argued that since man is naturally well-disposed toward his fellows, all that is necessary for a good society is sufficient training and opportunity to make all men realize that their own good derives from the common good. Hamilton believed the principal duty of government was to protect private property and the sanctity of contract; Jefferson saw it as promoting the general welfare over and above any consideration of wealth.... Hamilton saw American prosperity rising through industrial capitalism; Jefferson looked with suspicion and disfavor upon mercantile activity, found it enslaving, deceitful, predatory, and contrary to man's natural desire to live free and relatively self-sufficient by the fruit of his own labors. Instead of manufacturing, he placed his hopes in an agrarian economy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and... most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legis...lature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus every Part was full of Vice, Yet the whole Mass a Paradise...... The worst of all the Multitude Did something for the Common Good. ... ...Luxury Employ'd a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more... ... ...the very Poor Liv'd better than the Rich before...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »