| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Human rights - 1980 - 610 pages
...statement follows :] PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. JESSE HELMS Mr. Chairman, as Thomas Jefferson once stated: "The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the just and only legitimate object of good government." I believe no more concise statement of the motives... | |
| Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe - 1987 - 408 pages
...American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson, the author of bur Declaration of Independence, believed that "the care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." This Western tradition of individualism found... | |
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