| John Comly, Isaac Comly - Quakers - 1834 - 410 pages
...they are endowed by their Creator, with certain inalienable rights; — that, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; — and that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men." And seeing this was the very substance of the doctrine I had been concerned... | |
| Christian life - 1835 - 596 pages
...be self-evident ; that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights; such as Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness : and that to secure these rights, governments are instituted ; but when any government becomes destructive of these ends, it is our right to do all we... | |
| Slavery - 1837 - 340 pages
...face of the earth ;' — ' that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights ; and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." " We believe that slavery is an evil now ; and, of course, the slaves ought... | |
| James Gillespie Birney, Franklin Harper Elmore - American Anti-Slavery Society - 1838 - 104 pages
...truths to be self-evident— that all men are created equal— that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights— and that, among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' " 3 2044 019 100 759 The borrower must return this item on or before the... | |
| United States - 1838 - 410 pages
...the sublime maxim, ' that all men are created free and equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' If in no instance we have transgressed this axiom of democratic liberty,... | |
| United States - 1838 - 418 pages
...the sublime maxim, ' that all men are created free and equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' If in no instance we have transgressed this axiom of democratic liberty,... | |
| William Huffington - Delaware - 1839 - 500 pages
...existance of man, that '-All men are created free and equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And, that to secure these rights governments were instituted among men, deriving... | |
| George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...truths to be self-evident,— that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' He then goes on to state that the interdiction of the African slave trade... | |
| John Quincy Adams - Amistad (Schooner) - 1841 - 140 pages
...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, they are incompatible with the rights of... | |
| Thomas C. Thornton - Slavery - 1841 - 358 pages
...your honour to preside. "The great doctrine that 'God hath created all men equal, and' endowed them with certain inalienable rights, and that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness/ is affirmed in your Declaration of Independence, and justified in the theory... | |
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