 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1885 - 684 pages
...a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can the liberties of a nation be deemed 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, that they arc not to be violated without his wrath f Indeed, I... | |
 | William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, G. C. Kniffin - Kentucky - 1888 - 1108 pages
...Others based their opposition on moral grounds, and questioned whether "the liberties of a nation be 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 jGod." (Jefferson, 1781.) On the other hand an honest few. believed... | |
 | Joseph Crane Hartzell - Education - 1888 - 286 pages
...revealed the controlling force when he said : " Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when wo have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gifts of God ? that they are not to be violated except with his wrath ? Indeed,... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 414 pages
...true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 pages
...true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour. 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... | |
 | James Schouler - Presidents - 1893 - 266 pages
...with which slavery cursed already the master race. "And can the liberties of a nation," he adds, " be thought secure when we have removed their only...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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 448 pages
...true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. 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... | |
 | William J. Federer - Religion - 2004 - 180 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Ernest - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 452 pages
...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... | |
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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? 
