 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...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 - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...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... | |
 | Frank Preston Stearns - Political science - 1904 - 294 pages
...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...In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon." The fact is that all men are equal in a spiritual, but not in a material, sense. We are all equal before... | |
 | Frank Preston Stearns - Political science - 1904 - 276 pages
...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...In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon." The fact is that all men are equal in a spiritual, but not in a material, sense. We are all equal before... | |
 | Frank Preston Stearns - Political science - 1904 - 296 pages
...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...In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon." The fact is that all men are equal in a spiritual, but not in a material, sense. We are all equal before... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 350 pages
...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 - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1905 - 350 pages
...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 yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no power to confer... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1905 - 362 pages
...are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This they said, and this they meant. 10 They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, or yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1906 - 434 pages
...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 352 pages
...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... | |
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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.... 
