 | 1928 - 858 strani
...Christian nor Deitists. But he insists that the conscience of every man shall be free, and exclaims : " I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." ADORE GOD FIRST To-day as we stand here where Mr. Jefferson lived, near where his ashes repose, in... | |
 | 1928 - 768 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... | |
 | Raymond Blaine Fosdick - 1928 - 266 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 skepticism of intellectual authority, a distaste for unruffled unanimities, a toleration... | |
 | 1900 - 536 strani
...him ; it was a passion ; and he founded the University of Virginia on faith in American manhood. " I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man," he once wrote. In the inscription written by- himself on the monument over his grave in the little... | |
 | Walter Lippmann - 1928 - 142 strani
...your passion was for liberty and for learning. JEFFERSON: It was. I had, as I once said to Dr. Rush, sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. SOCRATES : And this I believe is Mr. Bryan, three times the chosen leader of the party which you founded.... | |
 | Benjamin Nathan Cardozo - 1928 - 172 strani
...Our own institutional origins give the angle of departure. "I have sworn upon the altar of the living God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." The words are those of Jefferson, but the spirit was in the air. In that faith was organized what Professor... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 strani
...which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. The eyes of the virtuous all over the earth are turned with... | |
 | Sally Mahe, Kathy Covert - 2004 - 228 strani
...Independence and contributed to the Constitutional Convention. A powerful advocate of liberty, Jefferson said, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." pp. 23, 132 Johnson, Sarah - 10 th -grade student as quoted by Roger Housden in Sacred America, The... | |
 | Rolf A. F. Witzsche - 2004 - 221 strani
...of the observatory was appropriately chosen in this sense. The quote was inscribed in gold letters. "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Nothing seemed more certain than this, because our ship was the living evidence that he had been right,... | |
 | Carol H. Behrman - 2003 - 122 strani
...feet high and stands upon a black pedestal. A circular panel below the dome bears Jefferson's words: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Other quotations are engraved on the marble panels. These words about freedom and democracy reflect... | |
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I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against ] every form of tyranny over the mind of man. 
