 | Joy Hakim - History - 2003 - 438 pages
...having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy, a policy worthy of imitation. ... It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as...indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives... | |
 | Bernard Lewis - History - 2004 - 456 pages
...community leader in Newport, Rhode Island, dismissed the idea of toleration as essentially intolerant, as if "it was by the indulgence of one class of people...enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights." These are noble sentiments. In our own time they express a growing reality. These modern secular societies... | |
 | Ronald H. Isaacs - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...Bill of Rights). "Proclaim liberty throughout the land, for all of its inhabitants" (Leviticus 25:10). "For happily the government of the United States which...sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions... | |
 | Benjamin Blech - History - 2004 - 468 pages
...American colonies. Touro Synagogue at Newport, Rhode Island. (Courtesy ofG. E. Kidder Smith/Corbis) For happily, the government of the United States,...sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions... | |
 | David M. Ricci - History - 2004 - 326 pages
...Presidential Series, 8 vols. (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 1987-), Vol. 6, pp. 184-185: "Happily the government of the United States, which...- to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions... | |
 | E.J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - Religion - 2004 - 260 pages
...demean themselves as good citizens." 1 Toleration, he continues, is no longer "spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another...enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights." How are we to understand the Founders' argument? One line of interpretation is that an emphasis on... | |
 | Behrman House, Shelley Kapnek Rosenberg - History - 2004 - 84 pages
...means "permission or approval of • ^ftH an authority." |f •If f Hlf These words of Washington — "the government of the United States, which gives...bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance" — have become famous. Note that they first appeared in Moses Seixass letter to Washington. In your... | |
 | Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt - History - 2004 - 340 pages
...policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - Education - 2004 - 558 pages
...religious discrimination, he said, all possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it were by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent... | |
 | William J. Federer - Reference - 2004 - 504 pages
...felicity."2i GEORGE WASHINGTON, AUGUST I7, I790, ADDRESS TO THE HEBREW CONGREGATION, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: "It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural... | |
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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction,... 
