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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 (more quotes by Thomas Jefferson or books by/about 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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Government, President

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