 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. [Loud cheers.] I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the...endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and... | |
 | Kenneth M. Stampp - History - 1981 - 342 pages
...was "entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...he is as much entitled to these as the white man." All the historical records from 1776 to the 1850s "may be searched in vain for one single affirmation,... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - History - 1982 - 466 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral and intellectual endowment. But in the right... | |
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I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is... 
