 The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success. One dashingly calls them "glittering generalities.  The North American Review - Sayfa 239editör: - 1926Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 sayfa
...democracy of today holds the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing," and the axiom of "equality" is "denied, and evaded, with no small show of success....One dashingly calls them 'glittering generalities' . . . and still others insidiously argue that they apply only to 'superior races.'" The unhappy experience... | |
 | Alexander Leslie Klieforth, Robert John Munro - 2004 - 452 sayfa
...was at the very heart of the American love of freedom. Here was the way Lincoln phrased the matter: The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society ... All honor to Jefferson - to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 2006 - 292 sayfa
...true; but nevertheless he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and...identical in object and effect— the supplanting of the principles of free government, and restoring those of classification, caste, and legitimacy.... | |
 | James W. Ceaser, Jack N. Rakove, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Rogers M. Smith - 2006 - 252 sayfa
...now no child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation. . . . The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and...generalities'; another bluntly calls them 'self-evident lies."' Selected Speeches and Writings, 216. 87. Choate, "Speech at Lowell" (1856), in The Works of Rufus Choate,... | |
 | Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 sayfa
...child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation," Lincoln wrote. "They are denied, and evaded, with no small show of...another bluntly calls them 'self-evident lies'; and still others insidiously argue that they apply only to 'superior races.'" But since "this is a world... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 sayfa
...language. He means not a mere statement but the premise of a syllogism or an axiom of a geometric proof; "the principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society." The nursing fathers of the Declaration held the truth of human equality to be selfevident. But Americans... | |
 | Michael Knox Beran - 2007 - 521 sayfa
...principle that all men are created equal. The "definitions and axioms of free society" were, Lincoln said, denied, and evaded, with no small show of success...."glittering generalities"; another bluntly calls them "self evident lies"; and still others insidiously argue that they apply only to "superior races." These... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 sayfa
...Witchcraft; Levack, Witch-Hunt. 50. Hawthorne, Tales and Sketches, 1039. PART TWO Jefferson and the Founding The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. . . . All honor to Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln, April 6, 1859 In extracting the pure principles which... | |
 | Erik S. Root - 2008 - 268 sayfa
...true; but, nevertheless, he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and..."glittering generalities"; another bluntly calls them "self evident lies"; and still others insidiously argue that they apply only to "superior races." These... | |
 | Herbert Wallace Schneider - 1946 - 620 sayfa
...Jefferson in 1855, bewailed the utter collapse of freedom in American culture.2 And in 1859 Lincoln wrote: The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and...they apply to "superior races." These expressions . . . are the vanguard, the miners and sappers of «-eturning despotism.8 ut this reaction fails to... | |
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