I am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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.
The less government interferes with private pursuits the better for general prosperity.
I want anyone who believes in life liberty pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force any person any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success I want that organization that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
We believe as our founders did that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
A wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
If this is not done future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Wealth is a tool of freedom but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
When others stood idly by you and your families gave your all in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.