The care of human life and happiness and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
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Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands
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The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
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