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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.”

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Book:The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations

“My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.”

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Author:Vaclav Havel

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

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

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Author:George Orwell

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

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Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”

Source: Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books

“Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”

Source: Little Brother