 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the...country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Presidents - 1840 - 256 pages
...experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit...the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion. And remember,especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 384 pages
...opinion, exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion ; and rememoer, especially, that, for the efficient management of...common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, » government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable.... | |
 | Edward Currier - United States - 1841 - 474 pages
...invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments, as of other human institutions ; that experience is...hypothesis and opinion ; and remember especially, that from the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments, as of other human institutions; that experience is...hypothesis and opinion ; and remember especially, that from the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 pages
...invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments, as of other human institutions; that experience is...a country so extensive as ours, a government of as mnch vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty, is indispensable. Liberty itself... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions ; that experience is...hypothesis and opinion ; and remember especially, that from the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country : that facility in changes, upon the...consistent with the perfect security of liberty, is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government with powers properly distributed and adjusted,... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 828 pages
...tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the mere credit of hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change,...consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1843 - 452 pages
...experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion, expose to perpetual change, from the endless vaiiety of hypothesis and opinion. And remember, especially,... | |
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In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions — that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency... 
