Acknowledge Quote by John Adams

Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers…

— John Adams

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it…

— Karl Popper

Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed…

— Lord Chesterfield

The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered…

— Dinesh D'Souza

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An…

— Thomas Jefferson

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists…

— John Adams

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

— George Washington

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

— Aristotle

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,…

— Frances Wright

Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to confer happiness,…

— Ronald Reagan

The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of…

— George Washington

The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great…

— John Adams