...worthies had done: May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing...assume the blessings and security of self-government. . . . All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science...

...anniversary, Jefferson said, "May it be to the world, what I hope it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing...assume the blessings and security of self-government. . . . All eyes are open, or opening, to the rights of man" (Letter to Roger C. Weightman, June 24,1826)....

...century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. May it be to the world.., the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under...themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self government. . . All eyes are opened, or opening to the rights of man. The general spread of the...

...choice we made. May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing...security of self-government. That form which we have subtituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All...

...Man, 227); "May [The Declaration of Independence]," wrote Thomas Jefferson, "be to the world . . . the signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under...ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves.":i The American Revolution, so we have been told, brought things down to earth, brought...

...own, and the fate of the world," and he expected that it would in time become to all peoples "a signal arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish...superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves" (to Weightman, June 24, 1 826). In Jefferson's final and most mature assessment of the significance...

...message before he died on the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence said it best. . . "the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition (religion) had persuaded them to bind themselves and to assume the blessings and security of self government...

...Independence be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to Liberty . 75 some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing...assume the blessings and security of self-government. Cherish every measure which may foster our brotherly Union and perpetuate a constitution of government,...

...the world what I believe it will be; the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which the monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings of free government." The American Revolution was the beginning of a world revolution in which "man,...

...Writing of the Declaration of Independence, he believed it . . .will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing...exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes were opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already...