Connected Quote by George Washington

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the…

— George Washington

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

— George Washington

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

— Oscar Wilde

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

— William Weld

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

— Thomas Paine

“I see man as a hero. With his own happiness as his moral obligation; productive achievementbas his noblest activity and reason as the only…

— Ayn Rand

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life,…

— Ayn Rand

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of…

— Ayn Rand

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

— Daniel Gilbert

It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences…

— Robert Green Ingersoll