 | Francis Fukuyama - 2003 - 292 strani
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."6 The political equality enshrined in the Declaration of Independence rests on the empirical fact... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 strani
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."35 This is a world apart from the science of Henry Adams. Just a few decades after Jefferson's... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2003 - 304 strani
...II in the 1680s: "[T]he mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."26 NATURAL RIGHTS AND NATURAL LAW What does it mean to say that human beings are "endowed by their... | |
 | Gary V. Wood - 2004 - 268 strani
...celebrated example, "the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."4 This is what the Declaration means when it declares that all men are created equal. The Africans... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 strani
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,...others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them. I should,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 strani
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. Mine, after all, may be a Utopian dream, but being innocent, I have thought I might indulge in it till... | |
 | Linda Bolton - 2004 - 232 strani
...1963). truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." It is a promise entwined in the founding violence of a new law, creating an egalitarianism of material... | |
 | Alexander Leslie Klieforth, Robert John Munro - 2004 - 452 strani
...palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born, with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god." 1 826, July 4 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams deceased on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 strani
...the Declaration, "the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." 3 They are thus left free by nature to govern themselves—to decide what ends to pursue, and how to... | |
 | Gene Ruyle - 2005 - 182 strani
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. (B. Mayo, Jefferson Himself, p. 545) A few days after writing this, he died. Like his close friend... | |
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All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted... 
