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

[M]y religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogma…

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consi…

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It …