Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness Quotes

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

— Ibn Warraq

We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that…

— Ronald Reagan

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

— Alveda King

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Anonymous

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

— Michael Nutter

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

— John D. Rockefeller

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way,…

— Dan Savage

A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty,…

— Matthew Woodring Stover

In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way…

— Mike Huckabee

Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit…

— Ronald Reagan

For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest…

— Andrew Bacevich

Government can ensure that we share schools and streets and lunch counters and buses and elevators and theaters, but let us never…

— Mike Huckabee

Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the…

— Frederick Douglass

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker…

— Calvin Coolidge

What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two…

— Barack Obama

The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set…

— Abraham Lincoln

You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers…

— Brad Stine

The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of…

— Frank Zappa

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

America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has…

— Alex Epstein

[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

The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and…

— Hannah Arendt

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain…

— Thomas Jefferson

Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that…

— Sheldon Richman