To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
Protecting basic rights such as freedom of expression enhances social stability.
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.