 | Lance Banning - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 264 pages
...which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain...road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. I repair, then, fellow-citizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate... | |
 | Alexandra Hanson-Harding - Education - 1997 - 92 pages
...which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain...road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. * What Do You Think? 1 . Though his faith in the common man was strong, Jefferson didn't use a common... | |
 | Conrad Cherry - History - 1998 - 428 pages
...which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain...road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. I repair, then, fellow-citizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate... | |
 | Ian Marshall - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 308 pages
...to glory & happiness." In the inaugural he spoke of the nation's need to return to first principles, "to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to Peace, Liberty, & Safety." In each case, notes Hellcnbrand, Jefferson's rhetorical road leads "out of chaos and into... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Political science - 1999 - 676 pages
...been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith - the text of civil instruction the touchstone by which to try the services...road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. I repair, then, fellow citizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain...road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. I repair, then, fellowcitizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liherty, and safety. I repair, then, fellow-citizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain...road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. . , Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain...road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety . . . FRANCIS SCOTT KEY ir THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER In September 1814, British troops invaded Washington,... | |
 | Phillip G. Henderson - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 324 pages
...equivalent to that found in historical knowledge: ". . . should we wander from [these principles], let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."29 At other moments in his rhetorical practice, Jefferson was more conventionally narrative... | |
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These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through the age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed... 
