 It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment...  A Library of American Literature... - Page 166by Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888Full view - About this book
 | 1852 - 746 pages
...only on one side, and serve to veil and even Mcond the arts of influence on the other. PARTY SPIRIT. I have already intimated to you the danger of parties...with particular reference to the founding of them upon geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you, in the... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society •witfrin the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - United States - 1852 - 516 pages
...distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction,...tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property. "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 pages
...and adjusted, its surest Guardian. — [It is indeed little else than a name,- where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction,...and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.]59 I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference... | |
 | William L. Hickey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 588 pages
...distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction,...limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in tho secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property. This spirit, unfortunately,... | |
 | Presidents - 1853 - 514 pages
...distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - United States - 1854 - 532 pages
...and ad- • justed, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction,...enjoyment of the rights of person and property. . I " Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to. believe me fellow citizens) the... | |
 | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - Constitutions - 1854 - 422 pages
...distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction,...tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property." " The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - United States - 1854 - 496 pages
...distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction,...tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property. " Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the... | |
 | William Smyth - History, Modern - 1854 - 554 pages
...perfect security of liberty. " Liberty," he observed, " was little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment... | |
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