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What did Thomas Jefferson say about Good?

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  • Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
  • A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
  • The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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Here are the top most famous quotes about Good by Thomas Jefferson.

  • Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
  • A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
  • The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
  • I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
  • It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
  • In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
  • I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
  • The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
  • The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.