 | 1873 - 800 Seiten
...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 and...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." Nothing of him was impaired but his body, even then. But that grew steadily weaker until he lay upon... | |
 | E. M. Halliday - 2009 - 306 Seiten
...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 and spurred, ready to ride them. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves let the annual return of this day forever refresh... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 Seiten
...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 and...others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them. I will ask... | |
 | Hunter S. Thompson - 2002 - 388 Seiten
...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 and...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. . . . President Marcos would probably agree, but he would also probably argue that Jefferson's reality... | |
 | Stephen E. Ambrose - 2002 - 289 Seiten
...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 and spurred, ready to ride them." He died with hope, that the future would bring to fruition the promise of equality. For Jefferson,... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - 2003 - 500 Seiten
...a direction of some "leftist extremist" that holds 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." It is the view that we should oppose "a single and splendid government founded on banking institutions... | |
 | Richard Brookhiser - 2002 - 258 Seiten
...still offered as a general proposition the belief 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." Eleven years and a moral revolution later, one of Adams's colleagues, responding to the supposed petition... | |
 | John G. West - 2002 - 112 Seiten
...are fertile but as they are free," wrote Montesquieu.26 "[T]he mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride legitimately, by the grace of God," declared Jefferson.27 The freedom to be left alone — especially... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2003 - 276 Seiten
...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 and...others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them. CHAPTER 10... | |
 | Brian P. Janiskee, Ken Masugi - 2004 - 400 Seiten
...Jefferson explained this, noting the "palpable truth . . . that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." It is an objective and eternal truth, Jefferson argues, that no man stands in relation to any other... | |
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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... 
