 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...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 immediately...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... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...did consider all men created equal — equal in "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This they said,...did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all men were actually enjoying that 316 equality, nor yet, that they were about to confer it immediately... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - Law - 1986 - 292 pages
...inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...they did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This they said,...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... | |
 | Waldo Warder Braden - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 278 pages
...did consider all men created equal— equal, with certain inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This they said...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 immediately... | |
 | David Zarefsky - History - 1993 - 324 pages
...until the last encounter, at Alton, where Lincoln read from his earlier speech. The Founders, he noted, "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. . . . They meant simply to declare... | |
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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.... 
