[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering into society to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights, when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are life, liberty, and property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up an essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right of freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.
Samuel AdamsMots clés freedom america state american-revolution citizenship
Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.
Nancy Means WrightMots clés new-england american-revolution wilderness cows 18th-century vermont
Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America.
Bryant McGillMots clés democracy american-revolution changes
Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.
Joseph J. EllisMots clés american-revolution slavery
Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.
Joseph J. EllisMots clés american-revolution thomas-jefferson alexander-hamilton
In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence.
Joseph J. EllisMots clés american-revolution thomas-jefferson
God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.
Joseph J. EllisMots clés american-revolution thomas-jefferson
Would it be such a terrible thing for us to fall in love?" he asked.
...
"Ask me again in the morning.
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And I beheld that their mother Gentiles were gathered together upon the waters, and upon the land also, to battle against them. And I beheld that the power of God was with them, and also that the wrath of God was upon all those that were gathered together against them to battle. And I, Nephi, beheld that the Gentiles that had gone out of captivity were delivered by the power of God out of the hands of all other nations.
NephiMots clés american-revolution
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