...should permit. " They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all : constantly looked to, constantly labored for,...happiness and value of life to all people, of all colors, every where." There again are the sentiments I have expressed in regard to the Declaration of Independence...

...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...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere. ... Its authors meant it to be, thank God, it is now proving itself, a stumbling block to all those...

...Fathers "did not mean to declare all men equal in all respecti." Their ideal was a "free society . . . constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere." We cannot halt the movement toward an improved Union, to which events were "tending."5 "Liberty andUnion,...

...constantly lahored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and therehy constantly spreading and deepening its influence,...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere, —Abraham Lincoln on the founders and the Declaration of Independence, 1858 In 1955, the grandson...

...Rutgers University Press, 1953-55), 4:236. 9. Lincoln asserted that the authors of the Declaration "meant simply to declare the right. so that the enforcement...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere." Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857, in ibid., 2:406. 10. Abraham Lincoln,...

...them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere. Lincoln continued, saying that the assertion that all men are created equal had no practical use in...

...maintained that the Declaration had established the "standard maxim for free society." That standard was one "familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked...happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere."14 ^v^ The morning following Lincoln's inauguration, a symbol of the Union — Fort Sumter's...

...future readers. The founders meant to set up a standard maxim for a free society, which could be familar to all, and revered by all. constantly looked to....happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.1*" "" Ibid., 364-68. ""Ibid.. 415-22. Madison, says Jaffa, believed that the will of the...

...noble sentiments; they are a commitment to united action toward our common goal. They are a standard "constantly looked to, constantly labored for. and...happiness and value of life to all people of all colors, everywhere."8 In addition to a morality of source and of purpose, there is a morality of legal process...

...of the nation, he declared in 186o, "meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which would be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere" ( quoted. Wills 1978, xviii). The declarations — by foreign -policy designers, scholars, and journalists...