 | James Rudolph Garfield - Charities - 1911 - 444 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. They meant to set up a standard maxim... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 436 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... | |
 | Victor Alvin Ketcham - Debates and debating - 1914 - 400 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... | |
 | ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1919 - 572 pages
...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 conferitupon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1920 - 362 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. 1858 "A House Divided Against... | |
 | 1920 - 1020 pages
...This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all men were 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,... | |
 | Arthur Norman Holcombe - Political science - 1923 - 522 pages
...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 - Lincoln family (Samuel Lincoln, 1619?-1690) - 1924 - 456 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 - History - 1926 - 544 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 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 - Citizenship - 1927 - 148 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...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... | |
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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.... 
