Pursuit of Happiness
From the beginning, America has been dedicated to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” But the signers of the Declaration of Independence assumed that some truths did not have to be proved—that some truths were, to borrow a phrase, self-evident. It was self-evident, for example, that the happiness to be pursued was not the blissed-out buzz induced by drugs or shopping sprees. It was the happiness of the Book of Proverbs: “Happy is…… More »













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