 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.*... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 604 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own...well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lo»t by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step which you... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 pages
...have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of weakness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. "... | |
 | David Hume - 1876 - 944 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own...short space of four years. "My countrymen, one and oil, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. "... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own...injure the government in the short space of four years. 5. My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own...and vigilance,, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...l-Jtli instant, upon ' , ? , ' r AYrlu.sivclv niililir cntisiibTatiom. ivsnerttllllv declined. return or that little to their own hands at very short intervals....their virtue and vigilance, no Administration, by any ex: reine of weakness or folly, can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 pages
...have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of weakness or folly, can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years. My... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 586 pages
...people, shall withhold the requisite means, or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary. " My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well...Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there can be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately,... | |
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By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While... 
