What's the Secret to Happiness?

It says in the declaration of independence that we all have the right to the pursuit of happiness. Thomas jefferson said it was an expression of the american mind. He basically was taking dictation from benjamin franklinand that's what was really going on. Even Benjamin franklin had slaves in his household, and the rights of women were still more than a hundred years off. It didn't take long for us to get to the point where we could make a claim that we're living up to that aspiration.