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

Quotern

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

-- Thomas Jefferson

Copy

Recommended for You ...

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Copy Detail

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Copy Detail

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Copy Detail

Thomas Jefferson asked himself In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued which would be your second choice His answer France.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Copy Detail

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Copy Detail