 that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights — among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population.  Documents Accompanying the Journal - Page 165by Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1837Full view - About this book
 | John Ernest - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 452 pages
...sentiments, "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;" and when the bleeding African, lifting his fetters, exclaimed, "am I not... | |
 | Alan Brinkley, Davis Dyer - Executive power - 2004 - 604 pages
...implications were of declaring independence by saying that "we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." For most of the revolutionary... | |
 | Ronald H. Bayor - History - 2004 - 1032 pages
.... . . Assenting to the "self evident truth" maintained in the American Declaration of Independence, "that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights— o among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," I shall strenuously... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 456 pages
...parties. Assenting to the "self-evident truth" maintained in the American Declaration of Independence, "that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights — among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," I shall strenuously... | |
 | Jerome F. Ryan - 2004 - 220 pages
...uniform, we have always held high our national beliefs that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This book pays tribute to the many men and women who proudly serve our country... | |
 | F. Forrester Church - History - 2004 - 182 pages
...draftsman (our most secular founder) emphatically proclaims, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights." Citing as his authority "nature and nature's God," Thomas Jefferson establishes... | |
 | Jeremy A. Rabkin - Political Science - 2004 - 284 pages
...are, of course, differences of opinion among individuals within the same nation, too. The Declaration proclaims that "all men are created equal" and "endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights," from which it follows that no one is naturally entitled to rule another. Governments... | |
 | C. Bradley Thompson - Abolitionists - 324 pages
...to that cause, in which our forefathers embarked, when they declared it to be a self-evident truth, that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with an unalienable right to be free, and to pursue their own happiness. The principles of a true democracy... | |
 | David M. Berman - Religion - 2005 - 226 pages
...with their own power like the elitists and the leftists are. A patriot of America holds these truths, that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. You see, relativism does not allow you to hold these truths. If you are a relativist... | |
 | John A. Agnew - Business & Economics - 2005 - 300 pages
...composing the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson had included in the second paragraph the phrase "that all men are created equal, and Endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." This was to become the clarion call in the mid-nineteenth century for those, particularly... | |
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