No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
As Americans we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision their hard work and their personal responsibility.
If you want to have sustained joy you have to not only make sure that you think right but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.