 | Hiram Fuller - 1863 - 352 Seiten
...what may be a blessing if well administered ; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end...other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other." Franklin was... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 Seiten
...what may be a blessing, if well administered ; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, aa other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government,... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 Seiten
...blessing to the people, if well administered ; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end...despotic government, being incapable of any other." He proceeded to say, that, as in assembling another convention, there would be assembled with it the... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 Seiten
...... 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... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 Seiten
...blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end...before it, when the people shall become so corrupted aa to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. 2. I donbt, too, whether any other convention... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 676 Seiten
...years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall be so corrupted as to need despotic government, .being incapable of any other." Franklin concluded by moving a form, in which the Constitution should be signed by the members. Mr.... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 214 Seiten
...... 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... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 848 Seiten
...blessing to the people if well administered ; and believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end...other forms have done before it, when the people shall be so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other." When the document was... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1885 - 462 Seiten
...administered for a course of years, and that it can only end in despotism, as other forms of Government have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need a despotism, from being unfit for any other." Dr Franklin concluded his effective speech, unadorned... | |
 | George Morgan Browne - 1886 - 212 Seiten
...he believed, further, that this was likely to be well administered for a course of years, and could only end in despotism, as other forms have done before...despotic government, being incapable of any other.' After saying that he 'consented to the Constitution, because he expected no better, and because he... | |
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Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other... 
