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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence. These three aspects are listed among the "unalienable rights" of man....
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United States Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I believe in life. ... I believe in liberty. I believe that within every soul lies the capacity ... I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent...
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We have those things - life, liberty, pursuit of happiness - only as far as we are willing to grab them, and it's the fortune and circumstance of our era that we in the USA don't have to scrape for them ourselves, in most cases, although I'm sure that many of our friends from around the globe would be happy to remove...
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But that’s to care for them as human beings, under that other constitutional right — to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Respect for the grave sacrifices by veterans requires the Senate to strike down the Coburn ploy and hurry this vital measure to President Bush.
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