 And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?  The African Repository and Colonial Journal - Stran 3481830Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources - 2006 - 108 strani
...the pursuit of happiness. As Thomas Jefferson so eloquently stated: "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God?" I thank God for the Constitution of the United States of America and that I live here.... | |
 | Steven Fantina - 2006 - 254 strani
...hereafter be inscribed upon all our national coin.—Schuyler Colfax Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God?~Thomas Jefferson We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2005 - 148 strani
...they are secret. To William Duane, Washington, March 22, 1806 Slavery Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of god? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 strani
...consider, however, how he expresses himself in condemning slavery: And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country... | |
 | Joe R. Feagin - 2006 - 388 strani
...Jefferson worried much about uprisings by those enslaved, as in this famous comment later in Notes: Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune,... | |
 | Gary Scott Smith - 2006 - 680 strani
...CHAPTER TWO Thomas Jefferson and the Separation of Church and State Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are a gift of God? Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785 For I have sworn... | |
 | Laura Ingraham - 2006 - 404 strani
...concerning the protection of our precious freedom: "Can the liberties of a nation be thought to be secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are the gift of God?" This is something that the elites reject without... | |
 | Dana Luciano - 2007 - 345 strani
...and Hidden Grief (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). 76. "[C]an the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...people that these liberties are the gift of God?" Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, p. 163. 77. Sanchez-Eppler, Dependent States, p. 109. 78.... | |
 | Philip Michael Pantana (Sr.) - 2007 - 486 strani
...man. Rather, freedom is the gift of God. Thomas Jefferson said, "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...people that these liberties are the gift of God?" Pray that the God of our founding fathers, Author of liberty, will shed His grace on America and heal... | |
 | Alec G. Hargreaves, John Kelsay, Sumner B. Twiss - 2007 - 224 strani
...occasion, he can be found adopting the language of the "other side": "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm...people that these liberties are the gift of God?" Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on Virginia." in Koch and I'eden. Selected Writings of Jefferson, 278. 42.... | |
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