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public interest
«Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
directing, domestic, intends, intention, invisible hand, preferring, promote, promoting, public interest, The Public Interest
«Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.»
Author: Jimmy Breslin
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
chain, eludes, hamburger, hamburgers, public interest, television news, The Public Interest
«However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.»
«The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power . . . in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
fairly, Federal, federal constitution, grant, President Grant, public interest, pursuance, reasonably, residuum, specific, thereof, The Federal, the President, The Public Interest, traced, undefined
«In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
bench, not able, public interest, satisfactorily, The Exceptions, The Public Interest
«The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.»
«The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
individuals, Individual right, individual rights, interest, interests, precedence, private, private interest, public, public interest, rights, supersede, superseded, supersedes, The Public Interest
«No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
accumulation, accumulations, interests, massed, nobler, private, private interest, public interest, The Public Interest
«The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Economics,
Government
| Keywords:
monolith, personified, personify, public interest, The Public Interest
