| John Quincy Adams - 1841 - 140 pages
...life. Is that the principle on which these United States stand before the world 1 That DECLARATION says that every man is " endowed by his Creator with certain inalienable rights," and that <: among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." If these rights are inalienable,... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1863 - 346 pages
...there rises the great American political idea, a " self-evident truth "—which cannot be proved—it needs no proof; it is anterior to demonstration; namely,...that every man is endowed by his Creator with certain unalienable rights, and in these rights all men are equal; and on these the government is to rest,... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1864 - 352 pages
...dollars. That is the ship crop. Then, the corn crop is seven hundred millions of bushels — Indian corn. What a harvest of coal, copper, iron, lead, of wheat,...certain inalienable rights, and in these rights all men arc equal ; and on these the government is to rest, deriving its sole sanction from the governed's... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor - 1965 - 1136 pages
...high and lofty concepts of freedom for the individual which were written into our sacred documents that "every man is endowed by his Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these being, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Try as one might, it is difficult... | |
| Gary V. Wood - 2004 - 268 pages
...these United States stand before the world?"57 Still pointing to the Declaration, he reminded the Court that every man is "endowed by his creator with certain inalienable rights," and that "among these are life, liberty and the putsuit of happiness." If these rights are inalienable... | |
| Josh Gottheimer - 2003 - 576 pages
...fife. Is that the principle on which these United States stand before the world? That declaration says that every man is "endowed by his Creator with certain inalienable rights," and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." If these rights are inalienable,... | |
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