...enacted by assemblies representing all the people. would enforce the principles most beautifully stated in the Declaration of Independence "that all men are created equal. that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights. that among these are Life. Liberty...

...his colleagues, "You boast of the freedom of your Constitution and your laws; you have proclaimed, in the Declaration of Independence, 'That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that amongst these are life liberty,...

...Congress as a whole. The most radical idea advanced by the American Revolutionaries was the proposition set forth in the Declaration of Independence that "all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty,...

...philosophy of Natural Law and Natural Rights on which their thought was built. When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal," that all men enjoy "inalienable rights," that the inalienable rights of men include the right to "life,...

...flexible word that. (Lincoln's use of that, first of all, is an echo of Jefferson's use of the word in the Declaration of Independence: "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed . . .") The speech in this sense interprets itself; it provides its own key, in an...

...America needed most was moral reform. We needed leaders who were willing to work for the ideals embodied in the Declaration of Independence: ". . . that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator widi certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty...

...the moral basis of their underlying societies. The United States was founded on the principle stated in the Declaration of Independence, that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." That principle, as Abraham Lincoln...

...judicial, and legislative branches of our government, can we remain true to the core beliefs enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty...

...grounded in Christian Reformation principles The Constitution they wrote reflected the principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence — "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." It also reflected the separate...

...are human beings made by God. Foundational framework for both of these issues was already contained in the Declaration of Independence: "That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty...