 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 strani
...(to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition...assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have subtituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and... | |
 | Paul Downes - 2002 - 255 strani
...Independence]," wrote Thomas Jefferson, "be to the world . . . the signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves.":i The American Revolution, so we have been told, brought things down to earth, brought... | |
 | Fred E. Jandt - 2004 - 500 strani
...signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition (religion) had persuaded them to bind themselves and to assume the blessings and security of self government . . . the form which we have substituted restores the faith in unbounded reason and... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 strani
...world," and he expected that it would in time become to all peoples "a signal arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves" (to Weightman, June 24, 1 826). In Jefferson's final and most mature assessment of the significance... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 strani
...75 some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition...assume the blessings and security of self-government. Cherish every measure which may foster our brotherly Union and perpetuate a constitution of government,... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 strani
...(to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition...assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and... | |
 | Richard L. Bushman - 2004 - 324 strani
...the world what I believe it will be; the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which the monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings of free government." The American Revolution was the beginning of a world revolution in which "man,... | |
 | Gene Ruyle - 2005 - 182 strani
...(to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition...assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and... | |
 | Herman Cain - 2005 - 241 strani
...(to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition...assume the blessings and security of self-government .... All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. We must demand that Congress end the usurpation... | |
 | Walter Stahr - 2005 - 520 strani
...Jefferson wrote that he hoped America's independence would be "the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition...assume the blessings and security of self-government." Jay saw the Revolution as mainly American history, not world history, and saw it as God's particular... | |
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May it be to the world what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves and to assume... 
