| Commonwealth Club of California - 1919 - 720 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1904 - 548 Seiten
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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... | |
| Charles Felton Pidgin - 1904 - 358 Seiten
...otherwise. In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such. I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 396 Seiten
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1905 - 318 Seiten
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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... | |
| United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - 1905 - 846 Seiten
...Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other....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 - 1906 - 764 Seiten
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1901 - 694 Seiten
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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... | |
| Edward Waterman Townsend - 1906 - 332 Seiten
...more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. I doubt whether any other Convention we can obtain may be...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 1056 Seiten
...of any other. I doubt, too, whether a1r other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a betur constitution; for, when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitabh assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions. their errors... | |
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