 We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.  History of the American Civil War - Page 268by John William Draper - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Charles Mackay - Democracy - 1885 - 462 pages
...the fitness of the Americans for a republican form of government. " We have probably," he wrote, " had too good an opinion of human nature in forming...intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without lodging somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1904 - 604 pages
...event will be, is also beyond the reach of my forsight. We have errors to correct; we have had probably too good an opinion of human nature in forming our...intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without lodging somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1886 - 580 pages
...republic than did General Washington. In a letter to Mr. Jay in the previous autumn he had said : " We have probably had too good an opinion of human...into execution measures the best calculated for their owu good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can long exist as a nation... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 534 pages
...See also Life of JQ A -tares, II., p. 129. * Washington writes, the 8th of August, 1786, to Jay: " We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human BUture in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us that ,Tien will not adopt and carry into... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 538 pages
...of JQ A. tarns, II., p. 129. * Washington writes, the 8th of August, 1786, to Jay: " We have ertors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human anture in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us that •1>en will not adopt and carry... | |
 | John Jay - Judges - 1793 - 528 pages
...have, probably, had too gootf an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. /fexperience_has taught us, that men will not adopt, and carry into...the best calculated for their own good, without the in\ tervention of a coercive power./ 1 do not conceive we can ^j \ exist long~as~aTnation, withtruHiaving... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1891 - 546 pages
...to a crisis, accord with my own. What the event will be, is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged some where... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1891 - 544 pages
...to a crisis, accord with my own. What the event will be, is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged some where... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - Great Britain - 1891 - 208 pages
...time of Washington it was feared that the union would not hold together. Washington himself wrote, "We have probably had too good an opinion of human...good without the intervention of coercive power." In making this remark about having too good an opinion of human nature, Washington touched a weak point... | |
 | William O. Howe - Money - 1891 - 136 pages
...rapidly to a crisis, accord with my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct; we have probably had too...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of coersive powers. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without lodging somewhere a power... | |
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