...all time as "a standard maxim for free society." And contrary to Taney's opinion, the framers meant "to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fact as fast as circumstances should permit." The Dred Scott decision guaranteed "the spread of the...

...which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then...of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.145 Beginning with Locke, one notes the increasing, easy recourse to references to mankind....

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...include all men." The Founders, Lincoln stated: did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all men were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet...simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set to set up a standard maxim for...

...all people of all colors everywhere." They "meant simply to declare the right [of universal freedom], so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit." We must always bow to necessity — to the prevailing public tenor of times. "So I say in relation...

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...inaction." The Declaration, Lincoln maintained, "did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were actually enjoying that equality, nor yet, that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances...

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