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  Women's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, NY 1848...
• Th. Jefferson: We hold these truths to be self-evident.
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• A Democratic nation, at least when organized to secure the political rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, can be a large and populous nation.
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• The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
  -- Abraham Lincol...