"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
― William Ellery Channing
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Government
More From William Ellery Channing
- "Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."
- "The home is the chief school of human virtues."
- "God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
More In Government
- "Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies – an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as ‘investment.’"― Paul Ryan
- "I had no fun. My family was too serious."― Miuccia Prada
- "Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."― Ludwig van Beethoven