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• Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning
  hat the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others....
• Are we to understand," asked the judge, "that you hold your own interests above the interests of the public?
  "I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals." -- Ayn Rand...
• A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
  -- Napoleon Bonaparte, "Maxims" 1804-1815...
• The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for not by our labor agitato
  but by the Christian men to whom God in his infinite wisdom has given control of property interests of the country, and upon the successful management of which so much remains....
• The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for not by our labor agitato
  but by the Christian men to whom God in his infinite wisdom has given control of property interests of the country, and upon the successful management of which so much remains....
• Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
  The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• politics, n: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
  The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce...
• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs. -- E.W. Howe
• The only way you can protect your rights is to protect those of others!