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

Life, Government, Happiness, Care

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

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"He who knows best knows how little he knows."

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"The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it."

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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

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"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"

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"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."

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"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."

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