 We are threatened with the loss of our liberties by the possible abuse of power, notwithstanding the maxim that those who give may take away. It is the people that give power and can take it back. What shall restrain them? They are the masters who gave...  Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania - Page 2651835Full view - About this book
 | Horace Binney - History - 1835 - 86 pages
...the possible abuse of " power, notwithstanding the maxim that those who give «' may take away. It is the people that give power and can " take it back....matters " not to us, whether it be a wise one or not. I think that, "for America at least, the government on your table, is " very much superior to it. I... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1836 - 692 pages
...strongly objected to. When we come to that clause, we can prove it is highly necessary, and not dangerous. The worthy member has concluded his observations by...matters not to us whether it be a wise one or not. I think that, for America at least, the government on your table is very much superior to it. I ask... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - United States - 1836 - 686 pages
...by the possible abuse of power, notwithstanding the maxim, that those who give may take away. It is the people that give power, and can take it back....What shall restrain them ? They are the masters who give it, and of whom their servants hold it. He then argues against the system, because it does not... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 690 pages
...strongly objected to. When we come to that clause, we can prove it is highly necessary, and not dangerous. The worthy member has concluded his observations by...matters not to us whether it be a wise one or not. I think that, for America at least, the government on your table is very much superior to it. I ask... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 656 pages
...by the possible abuse of power, notwithstanding the maxim, that those who give may take away. It is the people that give power, and can take it back....What shall restrain them ? They are the masters who give it, and of whom their servants hold it. He then argues against the system, because it does not... | |
 | History - 1857 - 642 pages
...by the possible abuse of power, notwithstanding the maxim, that those who give may take away. It is y, and recite and rehearse in my own room, over and...over again ; yet when the day came, when the schoo give it, and of whom their servants hold it. He then argues against the system, because it does not... | |
 | History - 1857 - 650 pages
...by the possible abuse of power, notwithstanding the maxim, that those who give may take away. tt is the people that give power, and can take it back. What shall restrain them ? They are ;he masters who give it, and of whom their servants hold it. He then argues against the system, because... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 pages
...Virginia Constitution, he will find the best security in the former.' ' The worthy member [Patrick Henry] has concluded his observations by many eulogiums on...matters not to us whether it be a wise one or not. I think that, for America at least, the government on your table is very much superior to it. I ask... | |
 | Frank Moore - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 712 pages
...of power, notwithstanding the maxim, that those who give may take away. It is the people that gfve power, and can take it back. What shall restrain them ? They are the masters who give it, and of whom their servants hold it. He then argues against the system, because it does not... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1861 - 684 pages
...by the possible abuse of power, notwithstanding the maxim, that those who give may take away. It is the people that give power, and can take it back. What shall restrain them ? They arc the masters who give it, and of whom their servants hold it. He then argues against the system,... | |
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