commonweal

• They are her 'favourites'; because they are men who deserve favour; men who count not their own lives dear to themselves for the sake of the queen and of that commonweal which their hearts and reasons tell them is one with her. —  Sir Walter Raleigh and his Times
• Steve Forbes is no fan of progressive taxation - the idea that in a community where all contribute to the commonweal, the better-off should sacrifice more of their income than the poorer folks. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
• WE can get what WE must have as a nation for "leadership". to provide what we MUST have for concentration on the commonweal, on Congress, on cooperation over competition and further corporate consolidation. —  Salem-News.com
• In olden times they used it in a synonym for the general welfare -- in the "commonweal" or the "commonwealth."
• There is a nascent concern that the commonweal, with the GSE rescue, has fired its biggest bullet, and that there is very little left for the government to do, save loading the members of the FOMC into helicopters with bags of money which they can sprinkle liberally about the countryside.

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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