 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - United States - 1922 - 326 pages
...aristocrat need not lose heart. He may always expect the common people to think with Thomas Jefferson 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"; but if history... | |
 | Jesse Lee Bennett - American literature - 1925 - 374 pages
...that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. . . . Letter to Robert C. Weightman. All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man....general spread of the light of science has already opened to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - United States - 1922 - 336 pages
...aristocrat need not lose heart. He may always expect the common people to think with Thomas Jefferson 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"; but if history... | |
 | American essays - 1873 - 800 pages
...death ! " All eyes," he wrote, with trembling hand, indeed, but witli a heart buoyant and alert, " are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The...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." Nothing of him... | |
 | Albert Shaw - American literature - 1921 - 776 pages
...celebration in Washington of the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. In it he says, "The general spread of the light of science has already...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." The next half-century... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 212 pages
...of his own and John Adams' apotheosis. In it Jefferson expressed the doctrine of the Declaration as 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 . . ." No more succinct summary is possible of... | |
 | David Shenk - Computers - 1999 - 182 pages
...doesn't happen, our thin metaphysical membrane of human solidarity might easily rupture under the strain. “The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs,” Thomas Jefferson wrote two centuries ago, “nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them..... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded...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. For ourselves,... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, &c. Letter to Henry Lee, 8 May 1825. 1984:1501. IB All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of...of mankind has not been born with saddles on their back, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. Letter... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 276 pages
...approve the choice we made.” That [republican] form which we have substituted, restores the free night to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the nights of man. 189 The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the... | |
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have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. 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,... 
