Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 134 Happiness quotesHappiness QuotesHappiness Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. ... Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy.~ Big Brother The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.~ Sir William Blackstone [A] society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.~ Robert Bork Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of the rights and the right most valued by civilized men.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis People take different roads seeking fulfillment & happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. The quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair and make everybody happy is understandable [...] There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court.~ Justice Janice Brown None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.~ Pearl S. Buck Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.~ Pearl S. Buck All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.~ Buddha Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.~ Buddha Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.~ Edmund Burke 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.~ Whittaker Chambers Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.~ Henry Steele Commager The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.~ New Hampshire Constitution Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a free man. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.~ James Fenimore Cooper The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.~ Luc de Clapiers [Tyrannical] power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?~ Alexis de Tocqueville Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print