 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2003 - 304 страници
...which he regarded as a part of the right to liberty. In 1774 he wrote, "Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall...the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."42 Jefferson held this view throughout his life: To take from one, because it is thought his... | |
 | Lon Cantor - 2003 - 244 страници
...rights. Influenced by Locke, he was always a strong believer in the natural rights of man. He said, "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same...hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." Jefferson himself owned slaves, but he was against the institution of slavery. He willed that all of... | |
 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton - 1997 - 672 страници
...sufficiently ripened by culture, they will and must have self-government and no other.31 Jefferson said: "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of freedom may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."32 Few people comprehend the length and breadth of the... | |
 | Forrest Church - 2003 - 196 страници
...highest moral standards. To Jefferson, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were interdependent. "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time," he wrote. "The hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." True happiness, in turn, can arise... | |
 | Stephen Howard Browne - 2003 - 180 страници
...among the founders as the apostle of liberty. From his defiant declaration in the Summary View that "the God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time" to his final assurance shortly before death that "all eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of... | |
 | Bob Phillips - 2010 - 262 страници
...wonder that tangible things are two hundred times more real to us than God? — William R. Inge 113. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. — Thomas Jefferson 114. Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open... | |
 | Ronald Reagan - 2004 - 212 страници
...by God, we must be governed by tyrants." Explaining the inalienable rights of men, Jefferson said, "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." And it was George Washington who said that "of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political... | |
 | Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, Jeffry H. Morrison - 2004 - 340 страници
...it essentially charged that the British Parliament was trampling the rights that God had given them. "The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time," he wrote in the peroration. 17 Jefferson elaborated on that point the following year. After the battles... | |
 | Carol H. Behrman - 2003 - 122 страници
...however, that would sweep Jefferson into a world of ideas and action. CHAPTER FIVE SEEDS OF REVOLUTION "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." — Thomas Jefferson During most of the 1700s, the thirteen American colonies belonged to Great Britain.... | |
 | Sondra Myers, Benjamin R. Barber - 2004 - 112 страници
...that the theory became a practice; that the word went out to all, in Thomas Jefferson's phrase, that "the God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." And today this Nation—conceived in revolution, nurtured in liberty, maturing in independence—has... | |
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. 
