Quotes and commentary

QUOTE The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Just the opposite of the Progressive movement. Progressives think people should stand still and have things handed to them. Having the people chase happiness (success) and achieve it gives the government less power. How will the government survive if they have no substantial people to tax? They think they will thrive off the power to take and possess what the people would have owned. The commercial property and industry will be run by the government...but it will not work. The government is a failure at pursuing their own happiness.

But I digress...I think the quote means that you must take your own initiative to achieve your success and not rely on others to do it for you. YOU have to choose it, pursue it, and snare it. If someone else gives it to you it is not yours to enjoy.

QUOTE Pleasure is spread through the earth, The stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. William Wordsworth/1806

Pleasure shall not just befall you as you sit idly under a tree. Seek and Ye shall find...if you snooze you lose.

In the era of generous government we were promised abundance for all. By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul, But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And reality stood up and told us, If you don’t work you will die.

With government as an oppressor and the people as a burden there is very little the people can covet. The will to earn is diminished and all that will be available to the people is what little the government has to offer.