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By Jimmy Carter
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival; liberty is human rights; the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
- Source
- Farewell Address to the Nation, January 14, 1981
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Carter's farewell address, January 14, 1981. He restates the Declaration of Independence's life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for his own generation.