 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 692 pages
...exerting the utmost Energy of those Powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the Arms we have been compelled by our Enemies to...defiance of every Hazard, with unabating Firmness and Perseverence, employ for the preservation of our Liberties ; being with one Mind resolved to die Freemen... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 420 pages
...exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to...resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves. We fight not for glory or conquest Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and... | |
 | 1976 - 136 pages
...internal resources are great, and if necessary foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable. . . . The arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will . . . employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die free men rather... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - History - 1990 - 548 pages
...exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to...resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves. 8 [From this point the declaration follows Jefferson's draft.] Lest this declaration should disquiet... | |
 | Gary B. Nash - History - 1990 - 240 pages
...exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will in defiance of every hazard, with unabated firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties, being with one mind... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 pages
...great, and, if necessary, foreign Assistance is undoubtedly attainable." Armed resistance was employed "for the preservation of our Liberties; being with...resolved to die Freemen rather than to live Slaves." At the same time, the declaration rejected separation from Great Britain, asking instead for the restoration... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 pages
...exerting the utmost Energy of those Powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the Arms we have been compelled by our Enemies to...resolved to die Freemen rather than to live Slaves. Lest this Declaration should disquiet the Minds of our Friends and Fellow-Subjects in any part of the... | |
 | Derek H. Davis - Religion - 2000 - 328 pages
...exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator has graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to...our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die free men rather than live slaves. Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and... | |
 | Samuel B. Griffith - History - 2002 - 780 pages
...to the tyranny of irresponsible ministers, or resistance by force. "The latter is our choice. . . . The Arms we have been compelled by our Enemies to...with one Mind resolved to die Freemen rather than live Slaves."8 Dickinson wrote the "Loyal Petition," approved on July 5, which according to Jefferson... | |
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With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled... 
