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The Public Interest

«The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it»
«The most important change in how one defines the public interest that I have witnessed . . . over the last twenty years has been a deepening concern for the development of character in the citizenry.»
«The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.»
«The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights»
«Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.»
«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.»
«The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.»
«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.»

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