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"Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1] 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 are created to protect. Like the other principles in the ...
"Ode to Liberty" is a poem written by Alexander Pushkin. [1] Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin publicly recited the poem, one of several that led to his exile by Tsar Alexander the First . Authorities summoned Pushkin to Moscow after the poem was found among the belongings of the rebels from the Decembrist Uprising (1825).
Show your patriotic spirit this 4th of July and other American holidays with these inspiring freedom quotes from the Founding Fathers and other famous figures.
In 1776, our founding fathers established life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as the foundational principles of American society. That’s why we celebrate the day these rights were ...
The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society (1764) is a philosophical poem by novelist Oliver Goldsmith. In heroic verse of an Augustan style it discusses the causes of happiness and unhappiness in nations. It was the work which first made Goldsmith's name, and is still considered a classic of mid-18th-century poetry.
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh! Raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power! Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way,
On the other hand, memories of past happiness and love also provide a poignant background to their sufferings, as in a scene where a soldier recalls his last meeting with his girlfriend, who died during the siege. [8] According to Bruce Merry, The Free Besieged is "the greatest Greek poem never written." [9] [10]