Founding Issues
Happiness

1. "The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all Government." - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and arranger, 1854, p.17
2. "Republicanism in not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind." - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and arranger, 1854, p.20
3. "Should the conduct of the Americans, whilst promoting their own happiness, influence the feelings of other nations, and thereby render a service to mankind, they will receive a double pleasure." - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and aranger, 1854, p.25
4. "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." - United States Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
5. "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." - United States Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

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