Quote from Thomas Jefferson 

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

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Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source:
To the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland (March 31, 1809)
 
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