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| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...I consent, Sir, to this constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors...walls they were born, and here they shall die. If «very one of us in returning to our constituents were to report the objections he has had to it, and... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1822 - 272 pages
...constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that this is tuit the be*t. The opinions f have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a sellable of them abroao. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die. If every one of... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1834 - 310 pages
...are waiting with confidence, to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babylon, and that our States are on the point of separation,...The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice lo the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1835 - 262 pages
...purpose of cutting each other's throats. Thus 1 consent, sir, to this constitution, because I expec* no better, and because I am not sure that this is...opinions I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the pub lie good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad Within these walls they were born, and... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Economics - 1835 - 340 pages
...not snre, that this inot the hest. The opinions I have had of its errors, I saerifice to the pnblic good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad....were born, and here they shall die. If every one of ns, in retnrning to onr constitnents, were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavonr... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Autobiographical memory - 1837 - 356 pages
...waiting with confidence, to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel, and that our states are on the point of separation,...had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. 1 have never whispered a syllabic of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and here they... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1837 - 644 pages
...convention; " I consent to this constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good." And Washington wrote not long afterwards ; " There are some things in the new form, I will readily... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 654 pages
...convention ; " I consent to this constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure it is not the best The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good." And Washington wrote not long afterwards ; " There are some things in the new form, I will readily... | |
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