The care of human life and ...

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

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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.