"… the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness."
— Life

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Monroe (May 20, 1782); in Julian P. Boyd, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1952), vol. 6, p. 186.