Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history viral diseases have had their way with us and for just as long we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

My personal feeling if I can interject a political note is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater as well as accidental spills can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health but only itself as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being and certainly in almost every newborn baby that there is an active will toward health an impulse towards growth or towards the actualization.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better and explain the Duty before us it should be considered that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

Since therefore no man is born without faults and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never in any case regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity power and influence of nations.

I love my family and I had a very wonderful magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth more industry more happiness more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.