RIGHT TO THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Right to the pursuit of happiness

... public law of the world, and in the jurisprudence of America, the principle that it is fitting that there should be hereafter a distinction in the treatment of men by governments and in the recognition of their right to the pursuit of happiness by a peaceful change of their homes, based, not on conduct, not on character, but upon race and occupation; by asserting that you might justly deny to the Chinese what you might not justly deny to the Irish, that you might justly deny to the laborer ...

— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar