| Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 páginas
...which 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...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,... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 574 páginas
...which 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...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,... | |
| J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 566 páginas
...breadth" And earlier, on October 15th,. 1858, -At Alton, Illinois :— " They (the Fathers) did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality. They meant simply to declare the right , so that the enforcement of it must follow as fast as circumstances... | |
| 1900 - 1070 páginas
...which 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...as circumstances should permit. They meant to set uj, a standard maxim fo 'free society which should be familiar to all ; constantly looked to, constantly... | |
| Charles Maltby - 1884 - 340 páginas
...which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They said this and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then...that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer such a boon. In fact, they had no power to confer that equality. They meant simply to declare the right,... | |
| John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 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...might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. (Speech at Springfield, III., June 26, 1857.) If we could first know where we are, and whither we are... | |
| 1901 - 736 páginas
...happiness.' This they said, and this they meant. They did not mea» to assert the obvious untruth ihat all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upom them. In fact they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right,... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 páginas
...are,Jife, 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...They / meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforceI ment of it might follow as fast as circumstances should ; permit. They meant to set up a standard... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1078 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... | |
| Robert M. King - 1894 - 348 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 equality, or that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such... | |
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