Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Jennings Bryan

The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.

William Weld

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

Whittaker Chambers

The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.

Ronald Reagan

Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Nathan Myhrvold

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

Kid Cudi

I'm on the pursuit of happiness and I know, everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold. But I'll be fine once I get it, I'll be good.

Leo Strauss

Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.

Joyce Grenfell

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Ann Cooper

Journalists say your government has pressured printing houses not to print many independent newspapers.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

George William Norris

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Brian Wice

He's got to open it himself; the government can't kick it in.

Susan Bryant

I think that our statute on grandparents' rights is more tailored, more limited, and doesn't usurp parents' rights.

Carlos Alazraqui

I think it was Fox, actually; Fox, the studio, which had sold the rights to the television show, as I understand it, but had retained the film rights.

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

John Fitzgerald

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights - even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Richard Perle

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.