...circumstances 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, everywhere.14 The United States, based as it was on these principles, was unique in the history of...

...to, constantly labored for, and though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated and thereby deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors, everywhere."15o The framers, he asserted, had meant to put slavery on the course of ultimate extinction....

...explain his understanding of the meaning of equality set forth in the Declaration of Independence: They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society,...happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.89 In the 1995 preface to Basic Symbols, Carey suggests that this part of Lincoln's understanding...

...later. This is the sense in which Lincoln calls the Declaration "progressive": "They [the founders] meant to set up a standard maxim for free society,...happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere."44 The standard established by the Declaration should constantly "spread" and "deepen"...

..."declare the right so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit . . . augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere." (Basier, et al., eds., Collected Works of Lincoln, 2:4061. But perhaps for now America's common dreams...

...constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and argumenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere», E. FEHRENBACHFR, Speeches and Writings of Ahraham LincoIn (Library of America, 1989), citado en: G....

...ideals. He revered the Declaration of Independence as "a standard maxim for free society," something "constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and,...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere." Lincoln's commitment to this guiding principle deepened during the course of the war. By the time of...

...opportunities. Rather, "they meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be... constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and...happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere."7 Like Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln asserted a universality and timelessness for the principles...

...which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this they meant. . . . They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society,...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere. . . . They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear...

...They defined with tolerable distinctness in what respects they did consider all men created equal... They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society,...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere. (Abernethy, 1959, p, 185) The same orientation is revealed in the words of Martin Luther as he took...