Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay,… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Government can ensure that we share schools and streets and lunch counters and buses and elevators and theaters, but let us never… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I try to learn something from every character I take on. I try to better myself personally from it and Red allowed… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
[Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can… — Charlie LeDuff Copy Share Image
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The single most important principle I ever discovered is this: the goal or purpose of the Christian is precisely the pursuit of… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Those self-evident principles of life and liberty, pursuit of happiness, they're not self-executing. They require each of us to get engaged. And… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Happiness is your internal pursuit! It's an inside job. If you are looking for external factors, your happiness will only be temporary.… — Rohit Sharma (@rohit_sha Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
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