Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
Interpretation
Nations should have the autonomy to pursue what brings their people joy and fulfillment.
This quote by Alexander Hamilton emphasizes the importance of national sovereignty in determining the happiness and welfare of its citizens. It suggests that each nation should have the freedom to pursue policies and practices that align with the well-being and contentment of its people, reflecting the fundamental principle that happiness can be self-defined and pursued by each society according to its values and circumstances.
In practice
A politician might use this quote to emphasize the importance of policies that promote citizen happiness.
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its rights and interests: and the latter facilitates and extends the operations of commerce among individuals. Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. The great source of free government, popular election, should be perfectly pure, and the most unbounded liberty allowed.
I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.
Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
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