 | Arthur Norman Holcombe - 1923 - 522 páginas
...happiness. This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all men were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right,... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1924 - 456 páginas
...are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then...boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. "They meant to set up a standard... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1926 - 544 páginas
...are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that quality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power... | |
 | Clifford P. Futcher, United States. Adjutant-General's Office - 1927 - 148 páginas
...are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then...fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They simply meant to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances... | |
 | National Republican club inc - 1927 - 408 páginas
...not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all men were then actually enjoying that equality, nor that they were about to confer it immediately upon...to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it should follow as fast as circumstances would permit. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free... | |
 | 1918 - 458 páginas
...the Interior, April, 3oth, 1793. In Schmidt, ' Tableaux de la Re"volution Francaise,' ip 161. it, ' meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement ' of it might follow as fast as circumstances would permit.' In the case of the United States there was, to begin with, no such clean sweep of traditional... | |
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This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon.... 
