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" Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name... "
The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the Armies of the ... - Page 370
by David Ramsay - 1807 - 464 pages
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A Sacred Union of Citizens: George Washington's Farewell Address and the ...

Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...crossed it out and wrote instead that it was "little else than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to...the Society within the limits prescribed by the laws & to maintain all in the secure & tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person & property." Washington...
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From Many, One: Readings in American Political and Social Thought

Richard C. Sinopoli - Political Science - 1996 - 456 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, to...the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive...
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On Faith and Free Government

Daniel C. Palm - Political Science - 1997 - 230 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, to...the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive...
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Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States

George Washington - 1998 - 40 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, to...the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive...
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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic

Bruce Burgett - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 222 pages
...imagines a state energetic enough to "confine each member of the Society within the limits prescrilied by the laws and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of persons and property" (9), My previous chapter described these tensions as typical of republican and...
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Party Ideologies in America, 1828-1996

John Gerring - Philosophy - 2001 - 354 pages
...enterprises of factions, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of persons and property.' " 1 0 1 "Natural rights" was the calling card of the Democratic party, and it...
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The World's Great Speeches

Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...withstand the enterprises of faction; to confine each memher of society within the limits prescrihed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and...the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discrimination. Let me now take a more comprebensive...
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The Lost Art of the Great Speech: How to Write It, how to Deliver it

Richard Dowis - Business & Economics - 2000 - 292 pages
...tlre enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within tne limits prescribed by tne laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property. It is important . . . that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those...
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Presidential Documents: The Speeches, Proclamations, and Policies that Have ...

Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 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, to...the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive...
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The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from ...

David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to founding them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view,...
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