I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged.
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
To me, education is not a commodity. It is a public good, essential to any society with a claim to being civilised.
I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
