Sam Houston Quotes

It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

We have to be guided by the interest of society and the development of the state.

I don't see any reason why society can't function well when people come together in the common interest under our system. In fact that's what the Big Society is all about!

For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

The only public good is that which assures the private good of the citizens.

If citizenship means anything, it means sharing the pleasures and pains of American life.

The common good is chiefly guaranteed when personal rights and duties are maintained. The chief concern of civil authorities must therefore be to ensure that these rights are acknowledged, respected, coordinated with other rights, defended and promoted