 | Larry Jay Diamond - 2005 - 390 страници
...vision expressed in these words, which he had seen on a wall of the Jefferson Memorial, in Washington: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Sadr's vision was of a new, religious tyranny, an Iranian-style Islamist dictatorship in which he would... | |
 | David W. Hall - 2005 - 512 страници
...roots of this motto but merely hated any form of tyranny (as in his letter to Benjamin Rush, he wrote, "I have sworn, upon the altar of God, eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man") and engaged in unintended religious hyperbole. Patricia Bonomi displays a coat of arms from a Pennsylvania... | |
 | John Kukla, Amy Kukla - 2004 - 126 страници
...not accept ideologies, or beliefs, simply because he was told that they were true. He later wrote, "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Eventually, after a lifetime of study, Jefferson created his own collection of passages from the Bible... | |
 | Charles Schaefer - 2005 - 306 страници
...herself, never a mere means. The same humanistic frame of mind compelled Thomas Jefferson to write, "/ have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man," Central to Kantian and Jeffersonian humanism is the assumption that a human being is crowned with such... | |
 | William J. Federer - 2005 - 292 страници
...thoughts contrary to their godless governments. Jefferson wrote to Benjamin Rush, September 21, 1800: l have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. 372 BA C/Cr/R ED - W1LL1AM J. FEOER ER 259 rREEOOM "01 "REL/CVO/V - /VO7 FREEOOM "rROM" It is ironic... | |
 | Andrew Burstein - 2005 - 376 страници
...unrelenting Americanism that today wraps around the inside ring of the Jefferson Memorial dome — his "eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." And this, Jefferson appended, was all that the advocates of religion had to fear from him.31 In New... | |
 | George W. Liebmann - 404 страници
...History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965). 36. P. Kurland, "Religion and the Constitution: Eternal Hostility Against Every Form of Tyranny Over the Mind of Man," 20 UC Davis L Rev. 680 (1987). 37. P. Kurland, supra, note 22. 38. I. Brant, James Madison, 4 vols.... | |
 | Sidney Blumenthal - 2006 - 440 страници
...clerisy. His words, engraved on the Jefferson Memorial, are a direct reference to established religion: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." But now the Republican House majority leader, Tom DeLay, threatens the federal judiciary, saying: "The... | |
 | A. J. Langguth - 2006 - 499 страници
...would never consent to naming an established church for the United States. "And they believe truly. For I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." The harsh debate over the Jay Treaty had completed Washington's alienation from Madison. Never again... | |
 | Gary Scott Smith - 2006 - 680 страници
...in the minds of people that these liberties are a gift of God? Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785 For I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, Sept. 23, 1800 And may that Infinite Power, which rules the destinies of... | |
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. 
