 | Albert Gore - 2007 - 332 páginas
...Independence, Jefferson expressed his hope that the Declaration would arouse people throughout the world to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings & security of self-government. That form, which we have substituted, restores the free right to the... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 páginas
...indicated that he saw the Declaration becoming an ensign to "all" the "world," and praised it for "arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves" to authoritarian rule. He continues, All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general... | |
 | Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom - 2007 - 248 páginas
...announced to mean to the world: "May it be . . . what I believe it will be, the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves. ... All eyes are opened, or opening to the rights of man."1 The American Revolution, according to Thomas... | |
 | Paul M. Rego - 2008 - 256 páginas
...believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, finally to all) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of selfgovernment."" Despite Roosevelt's rejection of Natural Law as the product of a universe of fixed things, both he... | |
 | Marc Karnis Landy, Sidney M. Milkis - 2008 - 41 páginas
...about the global significance of the Declaration: "May it be to the world . . . the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self government." In the end, Jefferson believed, the Declaration would confirm the "palpable truth,... | |
 | Howard J. Wiarda - 2007 - 302 páginas
...believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, 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."24 The Declaration refers to certain "unalienable" rights — life, liberty, and the... | |
 | Steven Waldman - 2008 - 306 páginas
...believe it will be, !to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to alld the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves,' he wrote, And it was this rejection of old-fashioned religion — "monkish ignorance" — that allowed... | |
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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... 
