 | Anthony B. Pinn - 1998 - 266 Seiten
...Declaration himself, Thomas Jefferson [hoped that the Declaration would be] the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government." In some quarters, fear over decreasing religiosity, centered on discomfort with freethinkers and the... | |
 | Plato - 1998 - 132 Seiten
...believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of selfgovernment. . . . All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science... | |
 | Michael P. Zuckert - 1998 - 426 Seiten
...according to Thomas Jefferson in his very last written statement, was to be "the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves"; because "all eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man" they will replace ignorance and superstition... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 Seiten
...believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and... | |
 | Peter McNamara - 1999 - 278 Seiten
...believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government."59 Notes 1. William H. Rehnquist, "Thomas Jefferson and His Contemporaries," Journal... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 Seiten
...believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 2000 - 276 Seiten
...American Revolution had been an epochal moment in world history, he proclaimed, "the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government."1 The new nation was founded on the self-evident principles Jefferson set forth in... | |
 | John E. Ferling - 2002 - 430 Seiten
...Jefferson reiterated his belief that the American Revolution would prove to be "the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assure the blessings and security of self-government."27 Although Adams and Jefferson steadfastly applauded... | |
 | Joseph J Ellis - 2001 - 290 Seiten
...believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government. . . . All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science... | |
 | Walter Berns - 2002 - 164 Seiten
...hope it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government. . . . All eyes are open, or opening, to the rights of man" (Letter to Roger C. Weightman, June 24,... | |
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May it be to the world what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves and to assume... 
