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Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
Cory Booker
Love
Good
You
Patriotism
Country
Build
Differences
Other
Our
Must
Find
Pursue
Countrymen
Empower
Without
Always
Common
Common Good
Common Ground
Loving
Across
Your
Ground
Agree
Bridges
Each
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow Wilson
Work
Service
Good
Religion
Higher
Greatest
Than
Human
Common
Common Good
Creed
Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.
Parker Palmer
Good
Democracy
Together
People
Political
Debate
Values
Power
Differences
Other
Back
Our
About
Civility
Highest
Come
Call
Polite
American
Common
Being
Common Good
Each
I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.
Joyce Banda
Love
Good
Leadership
You
People
Sacrifice
About
Put
Learned
Falling
Falling In Love
Selflessness
Personal
Common
Common Good
Interests
Serving
Need
Love of country, subordination of personal interests to the common good, concern and care for the helpless and the impoverished - these are among the lost and faded values that we seek to recover and revitalize as we commence our journey towards a better Philippines.
Rodrigo Duterte
Love
Good
Journey
Better
Care
Philippines
Values
Country
Lost
Our
Seek
Recover
Faded
Towards
Concern
Impoverished
Commence
Subordination
Personal
Common
Common Good
Interests
Helpless
Among
Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.
Pope John XXIII
Good
Power
First
Duty
Willingly
Moral
Must
Mainly
Call
Contribute
Person
Authority
Common
Common Good
Therefore
Each
Conscience
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
Jimmy Carter
Good
Prevail
Made
Doors
Difficult
Those
Locked
Concentration
Intense
Behind
Common
Common Good
Interest
Against
Decisions
Special
Who
Special Interest
People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
Saul Alinsky
Good
Freedom
Democracy
People
Free
Sacrifice
Others
Unless
Willing
Some
Ongoing
Price
Pursuit
Common
Common Good
Cannot
Interests
Guarantee
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
Barbara Jordan
Good
Responsibility
Nation
Willingness
Share
Upholding
Common
Common Good
Formed
Us
Each
We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
Barbara Jordan
Good
You
People
Rest
Example
Nation
Ourselves
Tell
Must
Hypocritical
Call
Uphold
Official
Common
Common Good
Public
Public Servants
Servants
Set
Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
Betsy DeVos
Education
Good
Quality
Commitment
Made
Nation
Every
Think
Our
Paradigm
Must
Individual
Investments
Institutions
Quality Education
Buildings
Shift
Provide
Accordingly
Child
Common
Children
Common Good
Public
Serve
Funding
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
Jonathan Sacks
Best
Good
Religion
Community
Relationships
Citizenship
Religious
About
Something
Self
Tenor
Towards
Within
Altruism
Makes
Common
Common Good
Us
Creates
Turns
Away
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
Robert Casey
Good
Man
Political
Political Power
Power
Sense
Tried
Powerlessness
Felt
Any
Common
Common Good
Use
Who
Ever
Awful
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
Thomas Piketty
Good
Capitalism
Wealth
Market
Market Forces
Ensure
Ideals
Concentration
Democratic
Forces
Limit
Common
Common Good
Themselves
Compatible
Sufficient
Levels
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
Michael Moore
Good
Made
Without
Question
Common
Common Good
Decisions
Asking
Should
Ever
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Hillary Clinton
Saying
Good
You
Enough
Back
Give
Take
Well
Track
Well Enough
Off
America
Behalf
Get
Going
May
Short
Common
Tax
Common Good
Tax Cuts
Cut
Cuts
Helped
Many
Away
Things
We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
Jonathan Sacks
Work
Good
Home
Together
Build
Idea
Rediscover
Common
Common Good
Work Together
Need
When you have a highly divided society, it's hard to come together to make investments in the common good.
Joseph Stiglitz
Good
You
Together
Society
Divided
Investments
Highly
Come
Make
Common
Common Good
Hard
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.
Louis D. Brandeis
Good
Democracy
Justice
Liberty
Own
Individual
Through
Attainment
Development
Ideals
His
American
Common
Common Good
Social
Social Justice
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.
Pope Francis
Politics
Good
Dedication
Vocation
Martyrdom
Noble
Practise
Testimony
Die
Common
Common Good
Should
Requires
Activity
Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
Life
Health
Good
Needs
Respect
Dignity
Care
Others
Physical
Physical Health
Due
Human
Common
Common Good
Regard
Human Dignity
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas
Good
Law
Care
Made
Community
Him
Common
Common Good
Ordinance
Reason
Who
The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.
Arpad Busson
Good
Money
His
Person
Common
Common Good
Anything
Not Interested
Interested
Who
Billionaire
In my opinion, serving the common good is the true purpose of politics and is also the perspective through which our community should consider constitutional reform.
Carrie Lam
Politics
Good
Perspective
Community
Consider
Our
Our Community
Constitutional
Purpose
Through
True
Also
Opinion
Reform
Common
In My Opinion
Common Good
Which
Should
Serving
Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed to democracy while understanding that the polis ensures our participation and therefore our citizenship.
David Blunkett
Good
Freedom
Democracy
Liberty
Challenge
Understanding
Our
Those
Has-Been
Citizenship
Remains
Individuality
Participation
Balancing
Exercise
Been
Committed
Common
Common Good
While
Therefore
No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.
Donald Wuerl
Service
Good
Out
Tells
Some
Some Things
No-One
Forced
Because
Nor
Common
Anyone
Common Good
Cannot
Them
Should
Conscience
Things
Violate
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