Thomas Jefferson
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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.