"Right to life" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... precedents on the file, could announce their sublime faith that all men are endowed by their Creator with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; if they could discard the probate-court idea, and adopt universal suffrage; if, in spite of inconsistencies and imperfections, their conception has flowered in the best, and happiest, and most prosperous nation ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 • Various
... the self-evident truths established by our own Independence, I almost persuaded myself that I might rightfully take the dog. I reasoned thus: 1. All dogs are born free and equal. 2. They have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 3. All governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. These principles, breathed in, from childhood, with the atmosphere of our glorious "Fourth," I did not hesitate to apply in the case of the dog. I do not know ...
— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams
... were even more of an abolitionist, Squire. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, ought to apply to ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell
... dispose of his spiritual favours as he pleases, and that he has given accordingly different measures of his spirit to different people: but that, in doing this, he does not exclude others from an opportunity of salvation or a right to life. On the other hand, they believe that he is no respecter of persons, only as far as obedience is concerned: that election neither secures of itself good behaviour, nor protects from punishment: that every man who standeth, must take heed lest he fall: that ...
— A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume II (of 3) • Thomas Clarkson
... Right of the Stronger.—Natural right is quite a relative idea: the right to life and its conditions. But, as in this world, which is said to be created by a personal and perfect God, things are so amicably arranged that living creatures can only exist by devouring one another, the oldest effective natural right of every living being ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel |
