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• The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning
• The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved.
  One can trust nobody and nothing. -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) "Letters of Henry Adam...
• You possess an unhealthy diversity of interests.
• 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...
• Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good office
  it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something. (Maxim 83)...
• Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.
• Conservatives: Worshipped by the mineral interests; cursed by the poor.