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The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed. -- James Madison
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. -- Samuel Chase
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. -- Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good. -- Gerald R. Ford
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. -- Cory Doctorow
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other. -- C. S. Lewis
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people. -- John Adams

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