 | Edwin David Sanborn - New Hampshire - 1875 - 436 pages
...from the late President Jefferson : ' With the morals of the people, their industry also is destroyed. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...have removed their only firm basis — a conviction on the minds of the people that their liberties are the gift of God; that they are not to be violated... | |
 | Edwin David Sanborn - New Hampshire - 1875 - 436 pages
...from the late President Jefferson: ' With the morals of the people, their industry also is destroyed. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis—a conviction on the minds of the people that their liberties are the gift of God; that they... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1863 - 548 pages
...true, that, of the proprietors of slaves, a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...liberties are of the gift of God ? — that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1880 - 1104 pages
...speech reported in Afw York Herald, February 1 9, iSSo. nation be thought secure," writes Mr. Jefferson, "when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction...in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? that they are not to be violated but with his wrath t Indeed I tremble for my country... | |
 | Legislators - 1880 - 446 pages
...to which Jefferson, filled with a love of liberty, exclaimed: "Can the liberties of a nation be ever thought " secure when we have removed their only firm...basis, a conviction in the "minds of the people that their liberties are THE GIFT OP GOD ; that they are " not to be violated but with His wrath ? Indeed,... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - Republican Party - 1884 - 662 pages
...which Jefferson, filled with the love of liberty, exclaimed — "Can the liberties of a nation be ever thought secure when we have removed their only firm...basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that their liberties are the gift of God? that they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I... | |
 | Parker Pillsbury - Antislavery movements - 1884 - 518 pages
...proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we'have removed their only firm basis — a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1885 - 684 pages
...a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can the liberties of a nation be deemed secure when we have removed their only firm basis,...in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God, that they arc not to be violated without his wrath f Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
 | William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, G. C. Kniffin - Kentucky - 1888 - 1108 pages
...Others based their opposition on moral grounds, and questioned whether "the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed their only firm basis,...the people that these liberties are of the gift of jGod." (Jefferson, 1781.) On the other hand an honest few. believed slavery one of the means employed... | |
 | William Wells Brown - Fiction - 2003 - 324 pages
...human race, or entail his own miserable condition on the endless generations proceeding from him. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when...in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? that they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country... | |
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And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? 
