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- The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
- Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence
- The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
- I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
- Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. --Thomas Jefferson
- To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare…
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