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By John Adams
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all Divines and moral Philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man.
- Source
- Thoughts on Government (Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1776), 1776 · Thoughts on Government, 1776 pamphlet, pp. 4-5
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- Internet Archive (John Carter Brown Library scan of the 1776 Dunlap pamphlet)
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From Thoughts on Government, a letter Adams wrote in 1776 to a friend, printed as an anonymous pamphlet in Philadelphia by John Dunlap in 1776. The scan's catalog notes the letter was addressed to George Wythe of Virginia.