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

 

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If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

 

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You can't say civilization don't advance -- for in every war, they kill you in a new way.

 

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Jaw jaw is better than war war.

 

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Washington is

 

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From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

 

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

 

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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

 

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be

 

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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

 

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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

 

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That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

 

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It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed.

 

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If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

 

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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.



Mark Twain:

 

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

 

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That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

 

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Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves.



Mother Teresa:

 

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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

 

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After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.



Samuel Adams: