 | United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan) - 1982 - 940 sidor
...shores but to all people, everywhere. Ben Franklin, the grand old man of the Revolution, once said: "God, grant that not only the love of liberty but...anywhere on its surface and say, 'This is my country.' " Well, 200 years later liberty has not spread as wide as Franklin would have wished but, consistent... | |
 | United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter) - 1977 - 1840 sidor
...very interesting statement during the time he was Ambassador here which I would like to read. "Cod grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough...anywhere on its surface and say 'This is my country.' " The interesting thing is that he said this, "a thorough knowledge of the rights of man," years before... | |
 | Donald Keys - 1982 - 117 sidor
...Washington considered himself "a citizen of the great republic of humanity." Benjamin Franklin stated: "God grant that not only the Love of Liberty but a...nations of the earth so that a philosopher may set his feet anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.' " — Norman Cousins (In God We Trusf,... | |
 | Ralph Ketcham - 1987 - 294 sidor
...and tyranny but to a time when, in Benjamin Franklin's vision on the eve of the French Revolution, "not only the love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge...of Man may pervade all the Nations of the Earth." Washington wrote similarly to the marquis de Lafayette as he began his presidency: he thought he could... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 sidor
...throughout all parts of the world. I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world. Socrates God grant that not only the love of liberty but a...anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country!" Benjamin Franklin I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 sidor
...their country's sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under." Benjamin Franklin in 1789: "God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but...Anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.' " Carl Sandburg speaking of Abraham Lincoln before a joint session of the Congress: "Not often in the... | |
 | Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout - 1993 - 241 sidor
...upon the earth as Edwards had concerning those of the Awakening. "God grant," Franklin wrote in 1789, "that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough...his Foot anywhere on its Surface and say 'This is my Country.'"4 In the broadest sense, Edwards may be considered an exponent of a philosophical concept... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 sidor
...knowledge of place for America's first national leaders. Thus, in 1789, Franklin expresses hope that "a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade...anywhere on its Surface and say, 'This is my Country.' " In this formulation, the complexities, particularities, and frustrations of time, location, and custom... | |
 | Nian-Sheng Huang - 1994 - 304 sidor
...quoted what Franklin had wished more than one and a half centuries earlier: "God grant that not only Love of Liberty but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights...Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere and say This is My Country.""4 n More substantive than those ceremonial events was the undertaking... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1995 - 376 sidor
...repair" the difficulties of the present. "God grant," Franklin wrote to David Hartley on 4 December 1789, "that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough...anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.' "170 4 Science and Politics: Some Aspects of the Thought and Career of John Adams Science in the Career... | |
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God grant that not only the love of liberty, but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man, may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say, This is my country! 
