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

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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. – Thomas Jefferson

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War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. – George Orwell

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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. – Sallust

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