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Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

Book by Thomas Jefferson · 6 quotes · Men, Politics, Government

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“In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.”

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”