 | George Bancroft - 1896 - 616 páginas
...me to find this system approaching so near to perfection. I consent to this constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it...had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. " On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the convention, who may still... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1896 - 750 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. I hope, therefore, for our own sakes, as a part of the people, and for the sake of posterity, we shall... | |
 | 1896 - 752 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. I hope, therefore, for our own sakes, as a part of the people, and for the sake of posterity, we shall... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1898 - 430 páginas
...astonishes me to find this system approaching so near perfection. I consent to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1900 - 692 páginas
...sake of the great issue at stake. " Thus I consent, sir, to this constitution," he said, "because I expect no better and because I am not sure that it...had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good." Though the work of the convention was not entirely satisfactory to any member, nearly all accepted... | |
 | FRANCIS NEWTON THORPE - 1901 - 646 páginas
...obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. * * * Thus I consent to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. * * * If everyone of us in returning to our constituents were to report the objections he has had to... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1901 - 634 páginas
...obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. * * * Thus I consent to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. * * * If everyone of us in returning to our constituents were to report the objections he has had to... | |
 | Charles Arthur Conant - 1901 - 164 páginas
...semblance of harmony instead of divisions. " I consent to this Constitution," he declared, " because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best." Washington sought also to secure unanimity, and Hamilton declared : — " I am anxious that every member... | |
 | George Erasmus Nitzsche - 1901 - 372 páginas
...Constitution, the venerable Franklin, then past eighty years, fearing that some hesitated to sign, said : " The opinions I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die. If every one of us, in returning to our... | |
 | George Erasmus Nitzsche - 1901 - 356 páginas
...Constitution, the venerable Franklin, then past eighty years, fearing that some hesitated to sign, said : " The opinions I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die. If every one of us, in returning to our... | |
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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. 
