 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 ? Indeed I tremble...  The Universalist Quarterly and General Review - Page 68edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 568 pages
...— and of Jefferson, in that memorable utterance, prompted by Slavery, " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."4 All these sayings, directly repellent to the allegation of the Chief Justice, have often... | |
 | Joseph Doddridge - Frontier and pioneer life - 1876 - 342 pages
...be violated but in his wrath. Indeed I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just and that his justice cannot sleep forever : that considering...revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among the possible events : it may become probable by supernatural interference. The Almighty... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 676 pages
...early as 1782, dismissed the problem from his thoughts, with these words: " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep for ever. The way, I hope, is preparing, under the auspices of Heaven, for a total emancipation." At... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1878 - 676 pages
...early as 1782, dismissed the problem from his thoughts, with these words: " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep for ever. The way, I hope, is preparing, under the auspices of Heaven, for a total emancipation." At... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1863 - 548 pages
...these 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 ; that his justice cannot sleep for ever ; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune,... | |
 | Legislators - 1880 - 446 pages
...that their liberties are THE GIFT OP GOD ; that they are " not to be violated but with His wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country "when I reflect that...revolution of the " wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it " may become probable by supernatural interference ! The... | |
 | Scot French - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 400 pages
...gift of God" and that they risked what they had so recently won by denying such liberties to others. Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for even that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune,... | |
 | Carol H. Behrman - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 122 pages
...forth in detail, including the problems and the evils of slavery. "I tremble for my country," he wrote, "when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." Native Americans, whose culture had always interested him, were also included. He wrote about their... | |
 | Alan Thomas Wood - History - 2004 - 144 pages
...positive law, even if he chose not to follow the former in his personal life: I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate... | |
 | Lee Griffith - Political Science - 2004 - 420 pages
...Thomas Jefferson had already pondered the possibility when he wrote, "I tremble for my country when 1 reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that ... a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events, that it... | |
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