 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 658 páginas
...convention; "I consent to this constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good." And Washington wrote not long afterwards ; " There are some things in the new form, I will readily... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1837 - 356 páginas
...consent, Sir, to this constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that this is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. 1 have never whispered a syllabic of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and here they... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1839 - 246 páginas
...consent, Sir, to this constitution, because I expect no better, and because 7 am not sure that thia is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors...syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were horn, and here they shall die. If every one of us, in returning to our constituent^ were to report... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1839 - 666 páginas
..." I consent to wwhingion. this constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good." And Washington wrote not long afterwards ; " There are some things in the new form, I will readily... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1839 - 96 páginas
...eonsent, Sir, to this eonstitution, beeause I expeet no better, and beeause I am not sure that this is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I saerifiee to the publie good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walla... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1839 - 268 páginas
...this constitution, hecause I expect no hetter, and hecause I am not sure that this is not the hest. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the puhlic good. l have never whispered a syllahle of them ahroad. Within these walls they were horn, and... | |
 | Samuel George Arnold - 1840 - 238 páginas
...consent to this constitution," said Dr. Franklin, " because I expect no better, and because I am not sure it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good/' And Washington, in one of his letters, observes : " There are some things in the new form, I will readily... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 páginas
...of it : — " I consent to this constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good." And Washington's opinion was exactly the same. " In the aggregate," he said, " it is the best constitution... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 páginas
...this constitution, hecause I expect no hetter, and hecause I am not sure that this is not the hest. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the puhlic good. I have never whispered a syllahle of them ahroad. Within these walls they were horn, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 páginas
...this constitution ; hecause I expect no hetter, and hecause I am not sure that this is not the hest. The opinions I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the puhlic good. 1 have never whispered a syllahle of them ahroad. Within these walls they were horn, and... | |
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Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. 
