 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, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted...  The Boston News-letter: And City Record - Page 211826Full view - About this book
 | Richard Brookhiser - 2002 - 258 pages
...balked and despaired on the politics of slavery, still offered as a general proposition the belief 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." Eleven years and a moral revolution later, one... | |
 | John G. West - 2002 - 112 pages
..."Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile but as they are free," wrote Montesquieu.26 "[T]he mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride legitimately, by the grace of God," declared Jefferson.27... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2003 - 276 pages
...to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view 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 legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 pages
...to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view bK Ш9 d m \ y U 8ץD y ٍ ( b /4N W T K Y#ȫq f * R ? $ D *j=3 t cĆʠ d favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."35 This is a... | |
 | Brian P. Janiskee, Ken Masugi - 2004 - 400 pages
...are unchanging human qualities, not historical or social conditions. Jefferson explained this, noting 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 legitimately, by the grace of God." It is an objective... | |
 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 612 pages
...to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view 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 legitimately, by the grace of God. There are grounds... | |
 | Francis Fukuyama - 2003 - 292 pages
...Thomas Jefferson wrote, "The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view 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 legitimately, by the grace of God."6 The political... | |
 | Gary V. Wood - 2004 - 268 pages
...he has a right to rule others without their consent. To use Thomas Jefferson's celebrated example, "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."4 This is what... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2003 - 304 pages
...striking image that had been used by two English republicans executed by king Charles II in the 1680s: "[T]he 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."26 NATURAL RIGHTS... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 pages
...to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view 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 legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds... | |
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