 | James R. Wilburn - 2002 - 188 páginas
...the door to tyranny. Thomas Jefferson asked: "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?"3 John Adams put it this way: We have no government armed with power capable of containing... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 páginas
...religion for politics. We need only remind ourselves that the author of the Declaration also asked: "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?"3 Jefferson clearly believed that religious conviction on the part of the populace is a crucial... | |
 | Forrest Church - 2003 - 196 páginas
...nation's task as one. The map itself was clear. Jefferson had asked in his Notes on the State of Virginia, "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...people that these liberties are of the gift of God?" His conclusion was an ominous one. "They are not to be violated but with His wrath." Speaking directly... | |
 | David Kazanjian - 2003 - 336 páginas
...351-53). 35. The reference is to query 18 of the Notes on the State of Virginia. The actual passage is: "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country... | |
 | Bruce Dain - 2002 - 350 páginas
...cried in what has struck many readers as the most important antislavery jeremiad in American history: And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...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... | |
 | Arianna Huffington - 2003 - 256 páginas
...the hand of Divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." Jefferson agreed: "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?" Those who would rant on about some imagined unholy alliance between church and state... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 2003 - 324 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...about the moral character of citizens—that government should be neutral toward religion generally. "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...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... | |
 | Mary Mostert - 2004 - 230 páginas
...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... | |
 | Owen Lovejoy - 2004 - 504 páginas
...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... | |
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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 the gift of God... 
