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
“Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.”
“True Americanism” (1915).
Extra-judicial writings
Columbia University Inaugural Address http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (12 October 1948)
1940s
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
Source: Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926), Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 77.
Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 560 (1923)
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
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 274
