The greatest good to the greatest number is the object to be attained.
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Grant, Ulysses S. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1869, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.
Grant, Ulysses S. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1869, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.
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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City." 27 Feb. 1860, New York City, NY, USA.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.
Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 51, The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments." New York Packet, 8 Feb. 1788.
Madison, James. "No. 51: How to maintain: make the parts check each other. Also, a federal system divides power further.--Madison (or Hamilton)." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.
Quoted in Funeral Oration, by Thucydides
Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.