Who wrote/said the words "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"?

Answer 1

Adam Smith coined the phrase "life liberty and the pursuit of property" although that phrase has often been incorrectly attributed to Locke.

However, it was written by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence

Answer 2

"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence. It is listed as one of the "unalienable rights" of man.
On June 11, 1776, a committee consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut (the "Committee of Five"), was formed to draft a suitable declaration to frame this resolution. The committee decided that Jefferson would write the draft, which he showed to Franklin and Adams, who made several minor corrections. Jefferson then produced another copy incorporating these changes, and the committee presented this copy to the Continental Congress on June 28, 1776.

Answer 3

Thomas Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence. This came from Adam Smith's "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property", which he in turn got from John Locke's "Life, liberty, and estate."

Answer 4

These words were uttered by Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964), African American educator and feminist. A Voice from the South, part 1 (1892).
". . . when the right of the individual is made sacred, when the image of God in human form, whether in marble or in clay, whether in alabaster or in ebony, is consecrated and inviolable, when men have been taught to look beneath the rags and grime, the pomp and pageantry of mere circumstance and have regard unto the celestial kernel uncontaminated at the core,—when race, color, sex, condition, are realized to be the accidents, not the substance of life, and consequently as not obscuring or modifying the inalienable title to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,—then is mastered the science of politeness, the art of courteous contact, which is naught but the practical application of the principal [sic] of benevolence, the back bone and marrow of all religion; then woman’s lesson is taught and woman’s cause is won—not the white woman nor the black woman nor the red woman, but the cause of every man or woman who has writhed silently under a mighty wrong . . ."
Anna Cooper was born to a slave.

Answer 5

The following first two paragraphs of The Declaration of Independence (Congress, July 4, 1776) includes those words.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pusuit of Happiness.

The framers of the Constitution wrote it.

Answer 6

Adam Smith.

"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence. It is listed as one of the "unalienable rights" of man.

Answer 7

Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.....those are the "unalienable rights to all humans"

Answer 8

Thomas Jefferson!!

Answer 9

HI, I believe Thomas Jefferson wrote it in the declaration of independence.

Answer 10

Thomas Jefferson Wrote it!