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  2. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    Such equality is necessary in order to create a free government. All men must be equal to each other in natural law. Jefferson also may have been influenced by Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which was published in early 1776: Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, 1778. He is credited with stylizing the final form of the quote. [1]

  3. Filippo Mazzei - Wikipedia

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    The great doctrine 'All men are created equal' [15] [16] and incorporated into the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, was paraphrased from the writing of Philip Mazzei, an Italian-born patriot and pamphleteer, who was a close friend of Jefferson. A few alleged scholars try to discredit Mazzei as the creator of this statement and ...

  4. Elizabeth Freeman - Wikipedia

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    All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.

  5. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident.' The Declaration of ...

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    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit ...

  6. United States Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia

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    They did not mean to say all men were equal in color, size, intellect, moral development, or social capacity. They defined with tolerable distinctness in what they did consider all men created equalequal in "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this they meant.

  7. The long, ongoing debate over ‘All men are created equal’

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  8. Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    In 272 words, and three minutes, Lincoln asserted that the nation was born not in 1789, but in 1776, "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal". He defined the war as dedicated to the principles of liberty and equality for all.

  9. American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man

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    All men are born free and equal, in dignity and in rights, and, being endowed by nature with reason and conscience, they should conduct themselves as brothers one to another. — Preamble, American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man