 They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 151by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Victor Alvin Ketcham - Debates and debating - 1914 - 400 pages
...should permit. "They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all, — constantly looked to, constantly labored...of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere." There again are the sentiments I have expressed in regard to the Declaration of Independence upon a... | |
 | ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1919 - 572 pages
...vexed question of racial inequality, see Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia (ch. 14), pp. 143-151. approximated; and thereby constantly spreading and...of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere." 1 The doctrine of natural rights itself was never more than a mode of expressing a profound belief... | |
 | Arthur Norman Holcombe - State governments - 1916 - 518 pages
...Jefferson, Notes on Virginia (ch. 14), pp. 143-151. 2 Stephen A. Douglas, Speech at Springfield, June 12, approximated ; and thereby constantly spreading and...of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere." 1 The doctrine of natural rights itself was never more than a mode of expressing a profound belief... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 pages
...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. . . . They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere. ... Its authors meant it to be — as, thank God, it is now proving itself — a stumbling-block to... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - United States - 1918 - 506 pages
...standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all and revered by all; constantly looked up to, constantly labored for, and even though never...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere. ... Its authors meant it to be, as, thank God, it is now proving itself, a stumbling block to all those... | |
 | 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...of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere." In the presence of such an interpretation of equality, the institution of slavery, which was recognized... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - Citizenship - 1920 - 424 pages
...for free society which should be familiar to all — constantly looked to, constantly labored for, s and, even though never perfectly attained, constantly...augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, everywhere." We are bound in honor to refuse to listen to those men 10 who would make us desist from... | |
 | Richard Franklin Pettigrew - United States - 1921 - 938 pages
...all were actually then enjoying that equality, not yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such...of life to all people of all colors everywhere. The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from... | |
 | Richard Franklin Pettigrew - United States - 1922 - 460 pages
...all were actually then enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such...of life to all people of all colors everywhere. The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from... | |
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