Public Happiness Quotes
- The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to… — Benjamin Rush
- The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of… — Samuel Adams
- The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may… — Unknown Author
- It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has… — Madame de Stael
- Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and… — James Madison
- But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the… — James Madison
- Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country. — George Washington
- The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next. — John Cotton Dana
- There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of… — George Washington
- Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness — George Washington