In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.
Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.
When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.
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