 | William Hosmer - 1852 - 206 pages
...they would be quite as wisely employed as they are in laying commands upon conscience. SECTION II. CIVIL GOVERNMENT CANNOT IMPAIR ANY OF THE NATURAL...Independence — "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"—is quite sufficient. They all stand on the same b#sis, and if one falls, the rest cannot... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - 1876 - 522 pages
...life, and impart such practical training as shall secure to every man the three rights promised him in the Declaration of Independence — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. By this means, and this means alone, I believe, can the present obstacles to spiritual life be removed,... | |
 | United States. Army. Maine Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) - 1876 - 416 pages
...surrender life? Did you not surrender those very things which are said to be accounted dear to men in the Declaration of Independence — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? In the sacred name of Country did you not surrender all? Did you not give up life? Most assuredly you... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1890 - 402 pages
...picked spirits of the world, lead the van ; and such is the pioneer army. What means that expression in the declaration of independence, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? What brought the cavaliers to Virginia in 1608? It was the pursuit of happiness. What animated the... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...what was the thought in line 7 spoken? How should this line, then, be read ? 9. Compare the expression in the Declaration of Independence, "life, liberty, and the 'pursuit' of happiness" ; and also the old proverb, "There is more pleasure in pursuit than in possession." What people think... | |
 | 1908 - 266 pages
...than that of Robert G. Ingersoll o» His political principles were embodied in those splendid words in the Declaration of Independence: "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." Among the nation's politicians he was unique. He raised loftier political standards. He called for... | |
 | 1919 - 484 pages
...accurate nor conclusive. Individual sovereignty is a part of the inalienable rights of man recited in the Declaration of Independence — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ; and by liberty is always meant liberty conscious of the- rights of others. Sovereignty in this sense... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 566 pages
...Lincoln said that there was no reason why the negro was not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. He contended that the negro was as much entitled to these essentials as the white man,t and then proceeded... | |
 | 1919 - 478 pages
...accurate nor conclusive. Individual sovereignty is a part of the inalienable rights of man recited in the Declaration of Independence — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ; and by liberty is always meant liberty conscious of the rights of others* Sovereignty in this sense... | |
 | Edward Nelson Dingley - 1922 - 228 pages
...accurate nor conclusive. Individual sovereignty is a part of the inalienable rights of man recited in the Declaration of Independence — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and by liberty is meant always liberty conscious of the rights of others; for rights accompanying individual... | |
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Individual sovereignty is a part of the inalienable rights of man recited in the Declaration of Independence — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ; and by liberty is always meant liberty conscious of the- rights of others. 
