[freedomcrusader]

Jefferson didn't replace 'property' with 'pursuit of happiness.' Jefferson wrote 'property' then Franklin, I think, changed it to 'pursuit of happiness' crossing out property.

[gcruse]

Jefferson didn't replace 'property' with 'pursuit of happiness.'
Jefferson wrote 'property' then Franklin, I think, changed it to
'pursuit of happiness' crossing out property.

I didn't know that.  The birth of PC?

[Auntie Mame]

Pursuit of happiness is one of those nebulous, New-Agey concepts. Like, dude, I just wanna be happy. How exactly do courts uphold one's right to try to be happy, especially in our current world where everyone thinks they have a right to the ever-elusive goal of actual happiness?

There's a talk show host by the name of Dennis Prager who has what I think is an interesting test which, when I was a bartender, I used to use often when I was bored. He says ask someone, "Which one of these four qualities do you feel is the most important to strive for in your life: (1) to be successful; (2) to be good; (3) to be happy; or (4) to be intelligent?"

He says that 95 percent of the folks he asks this of reply "To be happy." In my bartending days, the answer to this question was 100 percent "To be happy."

I asked my daughter this question and she replied, "Well, I know what you'd want me to say. You'd want to to be good, but I just want to be happy."

[Roscoe]

"It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it, but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society." --Thomas Jefferson

[Eustace]

And Walton has named us all peasants with no rights........