“Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.”
— Adam Smith Scottish moral philosopher and political economist 1723–1790
“The common good before the individual good. (Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz)”
The quote "The common good before the individual good. (Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz)" is famous quote attributed to Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party.
“The Nazi 25-point Programme,” Hitler’s speech on party's program (February 24, 1920) in Munich, Germany. Nazi Ideology Before 1933: A Documentation, Barbara Miller Lane, Leila J. Rupp, introduction and translation, Manchester University Press (1978) p. 43.
1920s
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— Louis Brandeis American Supreme Court Justice 1856–1941
“True Americanism” (1915).
Extra-judicial writings
— Dwight D. Eisenhower American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961) 1890–1969
Columbia University Inaugural Address http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (12 October 1948)
1940s
— William Ernest Hocking American philosopher 1873–1966
Source: Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926), Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 77.
— George Sutherland Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States Senator, member of the United States House of Representatives 1862–1942
Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 560 (1923)
— Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States 1946
Made that statement during a conference in Ottawa, Canada, in March 2006. He concluded that a trend of international goodwill has been developing since the 2004 tsunami and said, with a hint of optimism, that the world is now at “a time of unprecedented interdependence.”
Source: JW.org http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2007361?q=clinton&p=par
2000s
