An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

Public interest is a very unruly horse.

Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

A person who speaks honestly in the public interest has, most often, to pay unfortunately the heaviest interest imposed upon him by none but the beneficiary people only from the public

some land swaps have clearly been in the public interest