"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
― Thomas Jefferson
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Good
More From Thomas Jefferson
- "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
- "For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."
- "I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
More In Good
- "Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape."― William Hazlitt
- "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."― Jane Addams
- "Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."― Hannah Arendt