• ... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

    Frances Wright: ... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.
    Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.122