 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...Heaven itself has ordained." The success of the nation so auspiciously founded would in the end be "staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people." In closing, Washington again invoked "the Parent of the Human Race" to bless the deliberations of Congress... | |
 | Ernest L. Fortin - Philosophy - 2002 - 352 pages
...like we, would call the liberal cause. We can repeat the formulation from the first inaugural address: "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and...deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." 21 The explanation just given will surprise some, I... | |
 | James W. Cortada, Edward Wakin - Business & Economics - 2002 - 280 pages
...echoes today. On April 30, 1789, in his first Inaugural Address as the first US president, he said, "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and...the destiny of the republican model of government, are...entrusted to the hands of the American people." For us as 21st-century Americans, the objectives... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...private morality," and such "pre-eminence" would win for free government "the respect of the world." hich were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author...Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose exampl entrusted" to America, the government must abide by "the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty...republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Administration - History - 2006 - 257 pages
...on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty...republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.... | |
 | Al Snow, Al Snow, Sr. - Philosophy - 2004 - 174 pages
...Liberal-ills THINKING DISORDER DESTROYING AMERICA Al Snow, Sr. " The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and...deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." George Washington, First Inaugural Address, 1789 Th±s... | |
 | Beverly Merrill Kelley - History - 2004 - 350 pages
...power is seated in the people. 7 In his first inaugural (April 30, 1789), George Washington added, "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and...deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." 8 Yet as a democratic republic, certain fundamental... | |
 | Alan Brinkley, Davis Dyer - Executive power - 2004 - 604 pages
...were those of a "culprit . . . going to his place of execution," once in New York he rose to his task. "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and...deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people," he told his listeners. And he warned Congress against... | |
 | John J. O'Brien - Religion - 2005 - 420 pages
...on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained: and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty,...republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American... | |
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... the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people. 
