 | Melvyn L. Fein - 2001 - 376 strani
...Independence. In it he observed 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 arresting image suggests nothing less than a maternity ward crowded with innocent babies, unclothed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 strani
...view the 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...refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them. I will ask permission here to express the pleasure with which I should... | |
 | Hunter S. Thompson - 2002 - 388 strani
...view the 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. . . . President Marcos would probably agree, but he would also probably argue that Jefferson's reality... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2003 - 276 strani
...view the 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...refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them. CHAPTER 10 Law and the Judiciary November 1,177 8 In 1778, Jefferson... | |
 | Brian P. Janiskee, Ken Masugi - 2004 - 400 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." It is an objective and eternal truth, Jefferson argues, that no man stands in relation to any other... | |
 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 612 strani
...view the 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. There are grounds of hope for others; for ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 strani
...view the 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... | |
 | Gary V. Wood - 2004 - 268 strani
...Jefferson's 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... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2003 - 304 strani
...Charles 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... | |
 | Francis Fukuyama - 2003 - 292 strani
...view the 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... | |
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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... 
