 | Rufus Burrow - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 244
...Virginia, he nervously pondered the fate of a nation that denied basic rights to any of its citizens: And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 258
...denounced the institution in harsh, bitter terms. In Query XVIII, "Manners," he exploded in despair: And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed... | |
 | Mary Mostert - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...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...basis, a conviction 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... | |
 | William J. Federer - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 180
...is engraved on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC: "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? "That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed,... | |
 | E.J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...the moral character of citizens—that government should be neutral toward religion generally. "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...basis, a conviction 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... | |
 | Gesa Mackenthun - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...speculates on the destruction of morals brought about by the peculiar institution and concludes: And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed... | |
 | John Ernest - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...document. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson worries about the effects of slavery and writes, "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed... | |
 | Philip Steers, Maria Steers, Grandma and Grandpa Steers - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 102
...rebel against the government that God has ordained over them, we can call out with Thomas Jefferson: "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...basis, a conviction 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... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...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 when...basis, a conviction 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... | |
 | Owen Lovejoy - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...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,...basis, a conviction 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... | |
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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 of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? 
