 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1894 - 336 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 - Campaign debates - 1895 - 584 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... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 452 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... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 442 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, nor jet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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 - 1900 - 186 pages
...which 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... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 718 pages
...which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' This they Baid and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then...right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as faat as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 pages
...liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to 31 assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...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...actually enjoying that equality, nor yet, that they were abou* to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant... | |
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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.... 
