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" You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found, or, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have... "
The Story-life of Washington: A Life-history in Five Hundred True Stories - Page 170
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The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence ..., Volume 9

George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 576 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. Under these impressions, my humble opinion is, that there is a call for decision. Know precisely what...
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The North American Review, Volume 58

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 574 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. " Influence is not government. Let us have a government, by which our lives, liberties,...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." " Let the reins of government then be braced," he continued, " and held with a steady hand ; and every...
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The Library of American Biography, Volume 13

Jared Sparks - United States - 1847 - 464 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government, by which our lives, liberties,...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." The convention that framed the federal constitution was now in session, and when the result of its...
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Pictorial Life of George Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the ...

John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. Under these impressions, my humble opinion is, that there is a call for decision. Know precisely what...
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Outlines of Universal History from the Creation of the World to the Present Time

Georg Weber, Francis Bowen - United States - 1853 - 588 pages
...attainable, it voum not be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government, by which our lives, liberties,...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." § 520. Accordingly, a Convention of delegates from eleven of the States was held at Philadelphia in...
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Outlines of Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Present ...

Georg Weber - United States - 1854 - 586 pages
...attainable, it would not be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government, by which our lives, liberties,...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." § 520. Accordingly, a Convention of delegates from eleven of the States was held at Philadelphia in...
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pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as ...

George Washington - United States - 1855 - 574 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. Under these impressions, my humble opinion is, that there is a call for decision. Know precisely what...
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A Voice to America; Or, the Model Republic, Its Glory, Or Its Fall: With A ...

Thomas Bangs Thorpe - History - 1855 - 412 pages
...which its makers wrote it. — If. Y. Express, Aug. 10, 1855. IX. GOLDEN MAXIMS OF WASHINGTON. "Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties, will be secured." " The government of the United States, though not actually perfect, is one of the best in the world."...
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The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel, Comprising ...

William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...attainable, it would not be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government, by which our lives, liberties,...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once.' Accordingly, a Convention of delegates from eleven of the States WM held in Philadelphia in May, 1787,...
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The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 406 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. Under these impressions my humble opinion is, that there is a call for decision. Know precisely what...
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