 | Gary V. Wood - 2004 - 249 Seiten
...consent. To use Thomas Jefferson's celebrated example, "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."4 This is what the Declaration means when it declares that all men are created equal. The Africans... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 834 Seiten
...already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with he founding principles of a legitimate, constitutional...order, and they entail all of what follows. /. Men God."35 This is a world apart from the science of Henry Adams. Just a few decades after Jefferson's... | |
 | Richard B. Bernstein - 2004 - 251 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 should,... | |
 | Linda Bolton - 2004 - 209 Seiten
...Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove, 1963). 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 a promise entwined in the founding violence of a new law, creating an egalitarianism of material... | |
 | Alexander Leslie Klieforth, Robert John Munro - 2004 - 434 Seiten
...Chronology ready 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." 1 826, July 4 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams deceased on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 176 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. Mine, after all, may be a Utopian dream, but being innocent, I have thought I might indulge in it till... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus, John H. Eastby, Joseph H. Lane, Jr., David E. Marion, James F. Pontuso - 2004 - 162 Seiten
...According to Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration, "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." 3 They are thus left free by nature to govern themselves—to decide what ends to pursue, and how to... | |
 | Harry W. Fritz - 2004 - 143 Seiten
...life (June 24, 1826) he expounded "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."2 These are American values, even today. James Parton summed up: "If Jefferson was wrong, America... | |
 | Dick Stoken - 2004 - 368 Seiten
...was able to exploit the masses. According to Jefferson, "the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them." An admirer of the French Revolution ("the French revolution is the most sacred cause that man was ever... | |
 | Gene Ruyle - 2005 - 180 Seiten
...science has already laid open to 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. (B. Mayo, Jefferson Himself, p. 545) A few days after writing this, he died. Like his close friend... | |
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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... 
