famous works ever. It is quite astonishing how close this documents resembles the early words of our philosophers. Jefferson told us that we are endowed with those three unalienable rights. Like Jefferson, Epicurus and Aristotle both believed that the pursuit of happiness is an absolute must. A person needs to have happiness or else they will do what ever it takes to find it. The declaration also tells us that a prudent government will succeed. Machiavelli believes that in order to have a good government, you must be able to maneuver around the troubles that you encounter. The only way to move about the troubles is to have enough foresight to see them coming and enough judgment to move out of its way. There is no way that any of these three philosophers could have anything negative to say to the forefathers who wrote this Declaration of Independence....
