It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Go…

Alexander Hamilton
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It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield
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