 | David Kazanjian - Social Science - 2003 - 336 pages
...the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. ... of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis,... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - International law - 2004 - 318 pages
...climate no man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him. This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed...nation be -thought secure, when we have removed their •-• £5 , only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the... | |
 | E. J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - Religion - 2004 - 260 pages
...about the moral character of citizens—that government should be neutral toward religion generally. "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God?" Thomas Jefferson asks in his Notes on... | |
 | William J. Federer - Political Science - 2004 - 180 pages
...Virginia, is engraved on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC: "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? "That they are not to be violated... | |
 | Rufus Burrow - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 244 pages
...Virginia, he nervously pondered the fate of a nation that denied basic rights to any of its citizens: And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but... | |
 | Gesa Mackenthun - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 252 pages
...he speculates on the destruction of morals brought about by the peculiar institution and concludes: And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 258 pages
...denounced the institution in harsh, bitter terms. In Query XVIII, "Manners," he exploded in despair: And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but... | |
 | William Wells Brown - Fiction - 2003 - 324 pages
...the human race, or entail his own miserable condition on the endless generations proceeding from him. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? that they are not to be violated but... | |
 | Owen Lovejoy - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 504 pages
...Republic, who, from their wisdom, their patriotism, and singleness of purpose, had a prophet's forecast: "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure,...removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?" — Thomas Jefferson "I have no hope... | |
 | John Ernest - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 452 pages
...document. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson worries about the effects of slavery and writes, "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but... | |
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