[NYer]

Donald DeMarco is a professor emeritus at

St. Jerome’s University and an adjunct professor

at Holy Apostles College and Seminary and Mater Ecclesiae College.

[NYer]

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[Turbo Pig]

You want to know what our Founding Fathers thought about “the pursuit of happiness”? Go read Proverbs 3:13-26 (that’s in the Bible, for those that don’t know), and you will know EXACTLY where they were headed with the phrase.

[HairOfTheDog]

Bigger thoughts included in the article considered... Many people’s pursuit of happiness on the 4th, greatly robs me of mine.

I can’t stand fireworks: The noise, garbage, disruption and upset they cause me and all my animals.

[annalex]

Good article.

The triad of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness contains within itself its own seeds of destruction

Supposedly, Jefferson originally wrote "life, liberty and pursuit of property", which wouldn't have been half as bad.

[Molly K.]

I had always understood that at the time of the Founding Fathers, the phrase “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” referred to life, liberty, and right to acquire (through earning an honest living) and hold property. Property rights. If I have misunderstood it all these years, then I would gladly stand correction. Are there any scholars of the Revolution out there who understand it differently?

Of course, I am perfectly open to other applications of this phrase to the area of faith.

[the invisib1e hand]

“It is impossible for happiness to consist of power,” he writes, because “power is a principle” (not an end) and because “power has relation to good and evil” (whereas happiness is an unqualified good). Power, being a principle, is prior to something that is put into action. It precedes its exercise. In this sense, power is like money; it is something that is a means to an end, an instrument by which something other than itself is obtained. Both power and money are media of exchange: the former used to bring about an action, the latter to obtain goods or services.

I think my favorite blog is quoted as saying "power and money are fungible."

He probably reads it, too.

Anyway, the citation would explain why leftists are never happy.