 | Edwin David Sanborn - 1875 - 436 страници
...from the late President Jefferson: ' With the morals of the people, their industry also is destroyed. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis—a conviction on the minds of the people that their liberties are the gift of God; that they... | |
 | Mary Mostert - 2004 - 230 страници
...slaves. This change was distressing to Jefferson. In 1782 Jefferson wrote on the subject of slavery: "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...in the minds of the people that these liberties are ...the gift of God? That they are to be violated but with His wrath... But I think a change already... | |
 | Philip Steers, Maria Steers, Grandma and Grandpa Steers - 2004 - 102 страници
...rebel against the government that God has ordained over them, we can call out with Thomas Jefferson: "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
 | E.J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - 2004 - 260 страници
...the moral character of citizens—that government should be neutral toward religion generally. "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God?" Thomas Jefferson asks in his Notes on the State of Virginia. 2 Indeed, the separation... | |
 | Owen Lovejoy - 2004 - 504 страници
...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,...in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?" — Thomas Jefferson "I have no hope that the stream of general liberty will forever... | |
 | William J. Federer - 2004 - 180 страници
...foremost is the existence of God. "Next comes the truth that all men are equal in the sight of God. "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...in the minds of the people that these liberties are the Gift of God?" -Thomas Jefferson, 1781, Notes on the State of Virginia "Third is the fact of God's... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 2003 - 324 страници
...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 when...in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? that they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
 | Scot French - 2004 - 400 страници
...gift of God" and that they risked what they had so recently won by denying such liberties to others. Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for even that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune,... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - 2004 - 558 страници
...Thomas Jefferson also reflected on this matter: "Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we remove 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 with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country,... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 2004 - 318 страници
...true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can the liberties of a 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... | |
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And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? 
