 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - 1992 - 692 σελίδες
...another bluntly calls them "selfevident lies"; and still others insidiously argue that they apply only to "superior races." These expressions, differing...supplanting the principles of free government, and re289 storing those of classification, caste, and legitimacy. They would delight a convocation of crowned... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1992 - 324 σελίδες
...history" (SW 1.309). And it was Jefferson's framing of the ideal of the nation that made him its begetter: 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... | |
 | William Corlett - 1989 - 290 σελίδες
...nation" (HI :375), this letter mentions how those who disagree with Jefferson ought to be treated: 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... | |
 | Peter W. Schramm, Bradford P. Wilson - 1993 - 286 σελίδες
...true; but, nevertheless, he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and...they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success.7 For this reason, the maintenance of the principle of equality in men's minds and hearts was... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 σελίδες
...flow— by the tilt of the social landscape. ERIC HOFFER, The Temper of Our Time, p. 104 (1967). 1719 The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Henry L. Pierce and others, April 6, 1859.— The Collected Works of Abraham... | |
 | Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble - 1997 - 350 σελίδες
...the two drunken men. Now the challenge was to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and...another bluntly calls them "self-evident lies"; and still others insidiously argue that they apply only to "superior races." Such views were the vanguard... | |
 | Larry Arnhart - 1998 - 360 σελίδες
...self-evident truth of equality of rights and then deduces from these the requirements of just government. "The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society" (1953, 3:375). It is essential for Americans to accept these principles because without them political... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 σελίδες
...According to Kristol, only someone completely deluded could have written, as Lincoln did in 1859, that "The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society." 10. Hermann Rauschning, The Voice of Destruction (New York: Putnam, 1940), p. 69. This quotation is... | |
 | Thomas G. West - 1997 - 244 σελίδες
...be false, for the Declaration's argument rests on truths that claim to be eternal. As Lincoln said, "The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society . . . , applicable to all men and all times."5 Unlike Kerber's and Bushman's, our account of the Founders... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 2001 - 532 σελίδες
...true; but nevertheless he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society." No doubt Jefferson himself took this view, and was influenced by Euclid, directly or indirectly, in... | |
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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. 
