 | Marc Karnis Landy, Sidney M. Milkis - 2008 - 41 страници
...blessings and security of self government." In the end, Jefferson believed, the Declaration would confirm the "palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God." Jefferson died... | |
 | Lou Cannon, Carl M. Cannon - 2007 - 336 страници
...war. *"The palpable truth," Jefferson wrote on June 24, 1826, in the last letter he ever penned, was "that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." Colin Powell,... | |
 | Steven Waldman - 2008 - 306 страници
...reason and freedom of opimon," He continued, "The general spread of the light of science has aheady laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been bom with saddles on thcir backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,... | |
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All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted... 
