Kenneth Morgan Quotes

The public interest is more than the sum total of the interest groups.

I will ever prefer the weal of the public and of the whole commonwealth, in making of good laws and constitutions, to any particular and private ends of mine

Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Everyone thinks chiefly of his own, hardly ever of the public interest.

The good of the people is the chief law.

Government is a progressive instrument for the common good.

The end of government is the good of mankind.

I do not consider that letters written to public men on matters affecting the public interest and threatening the public welfare are private letters.

The supreme inspiration is the common weal.

There are certain public needs that outweigh private interests.

Public men are all amenable to the tribunal of the press in a free state. The greater, indeed, their trust, the more respectable are they.

Public interest is a very unruly horse.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

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.

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

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

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

Journalists have to be optimists. When you interview somebody on Social Security reform, you have got to believe that Social Security can be reformed.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Government is instituted for the common good, for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.