 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Judges - 1916 - 1216 pages
...disorders in New England; but, flung back Washington, "Influence is no government. Let us have one by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. . . . To be more exposed in the eyes of the world, and more contemptible than we already are, is hardly... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1917 - 732 pages
...When asked to use his influence for reform, he replied: ''Influence is no government. Let us have one by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." 117. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION CALLED (1786-1787) Since Congress could not rouse the states into... | |
 | Sir James William Barrett - Education - 1918 - 554 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is no government. Let us have one by which our lives, liberties, and properties 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... | |
 | Lionel Curtis - Colonization - 1918 - 790 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 properties, will be secured, or let ua know the worst at once.' J These were conditions which even the Government of Massachusetts was... | |
 | James Baldwin - Americanization - 1919 - 250 pages
...preserve the liberties of the people. George Washington was one of the first to speak out boldly: "Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." At length, a convention was called to meet in Philadelphia in May, 1787, and determine what should... | |
 | Morris Edmund Speare, Walter Blake Norris - National characteristics, American - 1920 - 300 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is no government. Let us have one by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." In brief, the fact is this, that liberty is the privilege of maturity, of self-control, of selfmastery,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1921 - 726 pages
...When asked to use his influence for reform, he replied: "Influence is no government. Let us have one by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once."117. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION CALLED (1786-1787) Since Congress could not rouse the states... | |
 | John Clement Fitzpatrick - United States - 1924 - 348 pages
...attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is no government. Let us have one by which our lives, liberties and properties 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... | |
 | Randolph Leigh - Constitutional history - 1923 - 342 pages
...ways the weakness of this league was made manifest. Washington wrote to a member of Congress, "Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties and properties will be secure." Leading men were convinced that the creation of a stronger union was the only remedy for the... | |
 | Chester F. Miller - Citizenship - 1925 - 242 pages
...talk, my good sir, of employing influence," wrote Washington. "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." The weakness of the government under the articles in not being able to establish a uniform currency... | |
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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... 
