The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
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All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.Jeremy Bentham
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
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Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.
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Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm
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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
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