 | William Horatio Barnes - 1868 - 684 sider
...Government to extend the elective franchise to negroes, but he was equally decided in the assertion of the right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This was his language : u ' But while I have no doubt that now, after the close of the war,... | |
 | 1919 - 644 sider
...the Negro troop which ran amuck through a peaceful Southern town ; equally indignant at the denial of the right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, whether the denial came from a labor union or from a modern feudal overlord. If he were... | |
 | Wickham Hoffman - 1877 - 318 sider
...was very well translated, except where he quoted from the Declaration of Independence, and spoke of the right of every man to " life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Here the translator had made him say that every man had a right "de vivre en travaillant... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1878 - 358 sider
...question, because it is not relevant to my present purpose, but I say that to the opponent of slavery the right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, is a sell-evident truth — a truth which calls not for argument but statement — a fundamental... | |
 | Samuel Francis Smith - 1880 - 994 sider
...They had nursed their determination to secure a government free from injustice, and which respected the right of every man to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Their demand was — " no stamp act — no taxation without representation." Unconsciously,... | |
 | George William Bagby - 1885 - 440 sider
...of Union. See, too, how Appomattox reaffirmed and established what Yorktown had proclaimed, viz. : the right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That no element of the problem might be wanting, that the fact of personal freedom and equality... | |
 | Wolcott Noble Griswold - 1887 - 250 sider
...that men have a right to the means of subsistence. The national declaration of independence assuring the right of every man to " life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," impliedly asserts the right of every man to the necessary means, embodied in a common heritage,... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1887 - 884 sider
...themselves. Now take that glorious, flaming sentence in the Declaration of Independence, which asserts the right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and which pronounces that right to be alike inalienable to all, — take that and strike... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1887 - 900 sider
...themselves. Now take that glorious, flaming sentence in the Declaration of Independence, which asserts the right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and which pronounces that right to be alike inalienable to all, — take that and strike... | |
 | 1921 - 558 sider
...Our Fourth-of-July orators talked grandly of the enormity of 'taxation without representation' and the right of every man to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'; but the bondage of millions of dusky human beings was never thought of as a thing even... | |
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Independence, which asserts the right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... 
