Caring Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

“The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.”

— Thomas Jefferson

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion;…

— Eric Hoffer

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when…

— Susan B. Anthony

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

— Lyn Nofziger

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

— Henry David Thoreau

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be…

— Fred Woodworth

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

— Anonymous

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

— Thomas Paine

... 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

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him…

— H. L. Mencken