 | Religious Liberty Association (Washington, D.C.) - 1920 - 144 strani
...donations, paid the bill, and secured the release of the property. THE CATACOMBS UNDER THE HILLS NEAR ROME I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson. " Wherever they [the early Christians] sought refuge, the followers of Christ... | |
 | 1928 - 918 strani
...and will of everybody into a perfect smoothness. We need to say with Thomas Jefferson, " I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." We come, then to an inevitable conclusion: in the realm of ideas standardization means death. Society... | |
 | Emma Lilian Dana - 1923 - 232 strani
...democracy forever secure. It was in fulfillment of an oath taken many years before : "I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man !" His eager work continued until the very end. He rode his fiery horse until he was so feeble that... | |
 | Thomas Dixon - 1924 - 362 strani
...proposal is made to establish a State Church. "Jefferson is first to speak his impetuous message : " 'I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man — ' "Madison, who presides, is slower and more careful but none the less forceful in his opposition... | |
 | 1928 - 772 strani
..."nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of their own minds." We need to say with Thomas Jefferson: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every, form of tyranny over the mind of man." We need to breed a scepticism of intellectual authority, a distaste for unruffled unanimities, a toleration... | |
 | 1927 - 782 strani
...have so justly abdicated," and was as emphatic as on the day he wrote his ringing "I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." An evolutionist before the days of Darwin, a scientist of note in the scientific world of his day,... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 strani
...of our country," wrote Jefferson, September, 1800, in one of his last letters before the election, " threatens abortion to their hopes, and they believe...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." In all Jefferson's career it is impossible to find a single instance of religious conformity or of... | |
 | Chalmers Lowell Pancoast - 1926 - 332 strani
...— Justice — Liberty." At the top of the editorial column in bold type appeared this statement : "For I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny of men — Jefferson." Even at this early date (1832) when Barnum was 22 years of age, he was interested... | |
 | Charles Warren - 1927 - 100 strani
...their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy." And these views he re-echoed when, as President, he wrote: "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility,...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." In those words of Jefferson, you hear re-echoed the words of a great Englishman, John Milton, who over... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 strani
...this was more than a formal faith. "I have sworn upon the altar of God," he wrote to a friend in 1800, "eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." The same spirit characterized his theories of education. While a New England college president was... | |
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I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against ] every form of tyranny over the mind of man. 
