What Are Inalienable Rights?

Has God really given all people the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Thomas Jefferson wrote in our Declaration of Independence that God has given us "certain inalienable rights...among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Jefferson was not a Christian. He was a Deist, but not an Atheist. I think we need to ask is this thought, which is part-and-parcel of what many of us consider what it means to be an American and a Christian, make us a nation founded on Christianity? Does it?
I have to answer, "No". The problem is that we tend to think that we have the right to live life on our own terms. We think liberty means to be able to be free to do what we want to do. We tell each other to "follow your heart" and to pursue what makes you happy. In our churches we even go as far to say to one another that it is God's goal to help us do those very things. But what does scripture say? God tells us, those who are believers and put their trust in Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins, exactly what our situation is in fact:

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. - Romans 8: 28,29