All THOMAS JEFFERSON Quotes about “Happiness”

“The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.”
“In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.”
“My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.”
“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”
“Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.”
“It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.”
“If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.”
“Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.”

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