 | Henry O'Reilly - History - 1838 - 570 pages
...obtained by the bloodstained steel or the tattered flags of the tented field will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. " I salute you, fellow-citizens, with every wish... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...obtained by tho blood-stained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. I salute you, fellow citizens, with every wish... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...obtained by the blood-stained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. I salute you, fellow citizens, with every wish... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 1044 pages
...obtained by the blood-stained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. I salute you, fellow citizens, with every wish... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...obtained by the blood-stained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first 1 6. 359. and only legitimate object of good government. SOLE depositaries of the remains of... | |
 | Conservation of natural resources - 1909 - 918 pages
...happiness. Proposed legislation such as the bill before you reminds us of Thomas Jefferson's statement that the care of human life and happiness — and not their destruction — is the first and only legitimate object of good government. Now in the early stages of this environmental... | |
 | William Fletcher Russell, Thomas Henry Briggs - Democracy - 1941 - 436 pages
...administration, and during its pleasure giving that administration full power. XXI Go SLOW IN POLITICAL ECONOMICS "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." —THOMAS JEFFERSON Under despotism, and particularly... | |
 | Administrative law - 1987 - 380 pages
...dignity of every human being and the commission that Thomas Jefferson expressed so well when he wrote, "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." The United States has a clear policy of combatting... | |
 | United States. President (1963-1969 : Johnson) - Presidents - 1965 - 1296 pages
...of decision for you — let us all live by the precept of that great American, Thomas Jefferson, who said, "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and the only legitimate object of good government." And for however long I may be permitted to... | |
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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. 
