Dan Savage Quotes

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It's a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.

We hold these truths to be self-evident,” begins the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. Who holds these truths? Americans hold these truths. Who are Americans? People who adhere to these truths. National identity and political principle were inseparable.

People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

Our individual liberty is the very essence of America. It is what makes America unique.

I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness; she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, which the Declaration of Independence claims.

The people who wrote the constitution ... didn't say life, liberty and welfare or life, liberty and food stamps.

Although The Declaration of Independence is not, like The Constitution, the law of the land, it is certainly the spirit of the land.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.

We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We were not endowed by the Federal Government. We were not endowed by entitlements. We were not endowed by pork barrel spending; we were not endowed by budgetary earmarks.

I just like the United States, and I like being an American.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.

An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.

I kind of like America. I'm not looking for it to be fundamentally transformed into something else. I don't want it to become like Europe.

They talk about the American Dream. I still believe in that. I still believe that this is a great country, where great things can happen, where anybody can become president of the United States. Just that simple statement there defines so much about the whole business of liberty and freedom and the pursuit of happiness.