 | L. Edward VanHoose - 2004 - 292 strani
...cases contained resulted from the heady fervor of a fighter dedicated to the defense of those rights: "I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." As for Aristotelian and Platonic politics, I recall such debates in my college classes. I also recall... | |
 | George McGovern - 2004 - 192 strani
...Jefferson Memorial at the Tidal Basin of the nation's capital are these words by the Sage of Monticello: "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Always worth repeating are his ageless words in the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - 2004 - 558 strani
...the natural rights principles that led to America's independence. His goal in all such efforts was: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" (cf., Lippman, 1928, p. 15). For Jefferson, the established church of any state was a form of tyranny... | |
 | Samantha Cook, Greg Ward, Tim Perry, Rough Guides (Firm) - 2004 - 1468 strani
...an Ionic colonnade, are carved with Jefferson's words, and an inscription around the frieze reads:"! have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." In front of the building, the picturesque Tidal Basin stretches almost to the Lincoln Memorial and... | |
 | Don Post - 2004 - 208 strani
...is now celebratory, and so forth. All together, not a bad drain to go down! Thomas Jefferson said, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind." The belief that the world teems with ghosties and ghoulies and long-legged beasties and things that... | |
 | Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Mark L. Prophet - 2004 - 241 strani
...This is our vow — no more, no less — to stand with and for the Truth spoken by Thomas Jefferson: "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the [Christ] mind of man." " So I think by calling upon the LORD with perfect love, the perfect ruby ray... | |
 | Sally Mahe, Kathy Covert - 2004 - 228 strani
...Constitutional Convention A powerful advocate of liberty, Jefferson said, "I have sworn upon the altar ot God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." pp. 23, 132 Johnson, Sarah - 10th-grade student as quoted by Roger Housden in Sacred America, The Emerging... | |
 | Susan Dunn - 2004 - 396 strani
...about the death sentences meted out to the slave rebels. The Virginian who, in that same letter, swore "eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" could not bring himself to swear hostility to tyranny over black people's bodies and souls. "The gallows... | |
 | Mark Crispin Miller - 2004 - 366 strani
...power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for / have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...to fear from me: and enough too in their opinion, & this is the cause of their printing lying pamphlets against me (emphasis added). Jefferson weathered... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 strani
...hands." In the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, Jefferson's famous words are carved in stone: "For I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." That sentence comes from a letter to Benjamin Rush, written in 1800, in which the context makes clear... | |
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I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against ] every form of tyranny over the mind of man. 
