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 Copy Share Image
Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like?… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The Constitution of America only guarantees pursuit of happiness-you have to catch up with it yourself. Fortunately, happiness is something that depends… — Gill Robb Wilson Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“If the universe comes melting down around you in searing flames and yet you remain alive... If all the minds of the… — S.W. Southwick Copy Share Image
Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness. — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis… — David A. Norris 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 like to be depressing. I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I… — Angela Richardson 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
our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can — Loretta Swit Copy Share Image
If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to-… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people. — Alveda King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness. — George Will Copy Share Image
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
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