 It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which...  George Washington - Page 180by Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1802 - 440 pages
...adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conis to be sustained, If, to please the people, we offer what tre ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend...•work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God." This was the patriot voice- of Washington... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1900 - 342 pages
...to be sustained. If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterward defend our work. Let us raise a standard to which...the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." Those words have gone down to history with the greatest utterances of great men. As... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1921 - 566 pages
...associates, said : offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us here raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Such was the spirit and such the high resolve of the Convention, and out of it was born the Constitution.... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1882 - 532 pages
...be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." 1 25. On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, last... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 610 pages
...be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." f On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, completing... | |
 | New England - 1904 - 850 pages
...be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Thus did he strike the keynote of the Convention... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - Recitations - 1899 - 266 pages
...organize, when success seemed hopeless, and despair suggested fatal compromise, Washington said, —" If to please the people we offer what we ourselves...the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God." There spoke the good genius of America. If any words were to be inscribed upon this... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1885 - 616 pages
...be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." f On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, completing... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 994 pages
...be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which...the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." " I am the State," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended in the grave of absolutism.... | |
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