...would be a violation of the principles of the Declaration of American Independence, which proclaims the inalienable right of all men to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Because he has asserted that the repeal, by Congress, without the consent of a majority...

...first asserted their right to establish governments of their own — declared that the natural and inalienable right of all men to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, was a "self-evident truth." Now, all " self-evident truths" except such as may be explicitly,...

...sovereignty, especially in a country which has solemnly declared, in its Declaration of Independence, the inalienable right of all men to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In an age of civilization and in a land of rights, Slavery may still be tolerated in fact;...

...sovereignty, especially in a country which has solemnly declared, in its Declaration of Independence, the inalienable right of all men to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In an age of civilization and in a land of rights, Slavery may still be tolerated in fact;...

...principles is that of the political and civil equality of all men. The most ' unchanging' of them is the ' inalienable right of all men to life, liberty, and ' the pursuit of happiness.' Slavery had caused colour to be a miserable exception to this universal law. But now that...

...authoritatively to these principles, in the resolution from which I have just quoted, and reaffirm the inalienable right of all men to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as a self-evident truth. This was no unmeaning generality. It was made necessary by the...

...the direction of the right was to cease doing wrong. At Baltimore, in 1*!0, he began to demand that the ''inalienable right of all men to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,'' on which our Declaration <>f Independence was based, should be — not curtferrril upon...

...have reached this distant and peaceful shore.1 He was the first statesman who taught the inherent and inalienable right of all men to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; the first to advocate the emancipation of the slaves; the first to discover the great secret...

...the Bosom of the People. — This principle shone out from every constitution they formed. " That ' inalienable right of all men to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,' was the keynote," as Rousseau, that passionate worshipper of ideal liberty, well said,...

...of law, and likewise the equal protection of the law. The fundamental principle of our government is the inalienable right of all men to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It will not be disputed that this includes the right to hold and enjoy property, without...