 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 440 pages
...the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain...inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, theh passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 630 pages
...people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can 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... | |
 | FRANCIS NEWTON THORPE - 1901 - 646 pages
...people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can 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... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 634 pages
...people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 450 pages
...the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me, sir,... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 494 pages
...the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected ? It, therefore, astonishes me, sir,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 458 pages
...the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me, sir,... | |
 | Commonwealth Club of California - California - 1919 - 720 pages
...there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; — I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain...Constitution. For, when you assemble a number of men to have advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their... | |
 | United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - Archives - 1905 - 854 pages
...the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain,...better Constitution: For when you assemble a number you of Men, to have the Advantage of their joint Wisdom inevitably assemble with those Men all their... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1904 - 548 pages
...the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain,...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir,... | |
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Constitution, for when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. 
