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To All His Creatures

March for Life

 

 

These communities, by their representatives in old  Independence Hall, said to the whole world of men: “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 of happiness.” This was their majestic  interpretation of the economy of the Universe. This was their  lofty, and wise, and noble understanding of the justice of  the Creator to His creatures. [Applause.] Yes, gentlemen, to  all His creatures, to the whole great family of man. In their  enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the Divine image and  likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, and degraded,  and imbruted by its fellows. They grasped not only the whole  race of man then living, but they reached forward and seized  upon the farthest posterity. They erected a beacon to guide  their children and their children’s children, and the countless  myriads who should inhabit the earth in other ages. Wise  statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity  to breed tyrants, and so they established these great  self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man,  some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that  none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life,  liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look  up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to  renew the battle which their fathers began — so that truth,  and justice, and mercy, and all the humane and Christian virtues  might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would  hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles  on which the temple of liberty was being built.

Abraham Lincoln, August 17, 1858

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Philip
Philip
Friday, January 22, AD 2016 5:10am

“…nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, and degraded, and imbruted by its fellows.”

To all Pro-Life people’s everywhere… God be with you. My humble prayers go to you and may Gods grace accompany you today and everyday.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Friday, January 22, AD 2016 7:30am

I wonder where the ‘Black Lives Matter’ are on abortion since they are the main target of Planned Parenthood. We have a black holocaust going on and very few care to take notice.

Penguins Fan
Penguins Fan
Friday, January 22, AD 2016 4:40pm

Of course, the Dying Legacy Media ignores it all.

DonL
DonL
Saturday, January 23, AD 2016 7:45am

It always fascinates me that in spite of the mass “education” of today, we radically fail to reach the wisdom of our forefathers and great leaders. We are now reduced to arguing about the economics of things as if money alone envelopes our humanity. We are blind to the fact that it is the social issues that are the very weapon that our enemies within have taken us down with so well. Perhaps radical Islam will reawaken us in time to resurrect the great cultural yeast given us by the wisdom of our forefathers and the pure gift of our Creator?

Philip
Philip
Saturday, January 23, AD 2016 8:37am

@Don L.

If not radical Islam, then possibly an act of nature. Of course no one would wish disaster upon themselves, but as you correctly mentioned, a reawakening on a massive volume of people, could reorient them to the last four things and the importance therein.
Death Judgement Heaven Hell

.Anzlyne
.Anzlyne
Saturday, January 23, AD 2016 2:59pm

“…so that truth, and justice, and mercy, and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land”
I think Abe Lincoln would have liked Marco Rubio’s answer to an atheist

Dr. Robert Schwartz
Dr. Robert Schwartz
Saturday, January 23, AD 2016 4:59pm

“…We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal….” Perhaps the most profound quote of our forefathers! I embrace the word “self-evident” because the fact also covers the logic of the very human existence of man, and with that follows the sacred character of the Commandments, all of them resting upon that very same being, viz., man, and his very nature.

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