| Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 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 Although there is a natural aristocracy of virtue and talent, as Jefferson conceded in a famous... | |
| John Samples - 2008 - 391 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."2 If no individual or group had the right to rule over others, individuals had an equal claim... | |
| Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 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 In Jefferson's mind, as in the minds of most Enlightenment thinkers in the late eighteenth century,... | |
| Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 strani
...before he died 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."9 LINCOLN AND SLAVERY: THE PROBLEM day of December, one thousand eight hundred; all persons born... | |
| David Saxe - 2006 - 223 strani
...the universal, inclusive term 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.20 Even resolving the "men" issue, the founders did not intend that "all were equal in size, intellect,... | |
| John Ehrenberg - 2006 - 224 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."2 Jefferson didn't extend this argument to slaves of course, but a little bit of hypocrisy is... | |
| Ernest L. Fortin - 2007 - 392 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.5 Given such... | |
| Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 strani
...was to be hanged] 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. These are the grounds of hope for others; for ourselves, let the annual return to this day forever refresh our... | |
| Jeremy D. Bailey - 2007 - 275 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." This more radical interpretation of the purpose of the Declaration corresponds with the more modest... | |
| Albert Gore - 2007 - 332 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. 46 It is important to note that what Jefferson warned against was not faith itself — nor even organized... | |
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