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common good

«Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about»
«Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.»
«It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.»
«There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.»
«Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community»
«Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.»
«More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.»
«The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.»
«He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage»
«Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.»