"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration
Independence Hall Assembly Room where Thomas Jefferson served in Congress
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information war poster (1942).
The Declaration of Independence, headed The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America on the document directed to be engrossed by Congress on July 19, 1776, is the founding docume
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
…Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments…
The 1823 facsimile of Timothy Matlack's engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration
Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776, a 1900 portrait by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris depicting Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson working on the Declaration