 | 1996 - 213 Seiten
...changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. * * * Towards the preservation of your Government, and the...its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist \vith care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts, One method... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 Seiten
...present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you speedily discountenance irregular opposition to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist...however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may he to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system,... | |
 | David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - 1998 - 607 Seiten
...designing men may endeavor to excite a belief, that there is a real difference of local interests and views Towards the preservation of your Government and the...upon its principles, however specious the pretexts I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to founding... | |
 | Deborah Homsher - 2000 - 264 Seiten
...enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.... Towards the preservation of your Government... it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance...upon its principles however specious the pretexts. (George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796) In this speech, Washington made firm distinctions between... | |
 | Olof Murelius - 2002 - 188 Seiten
...nation is permanently combined with its virtues. About the Constitution he warned his countrymen to "resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts." Over time, though, questions of sexual liberty and sexual morality have polarized the nation and expanded... | |
 | James Burnham - 396 Seiten
...have made the problem of tradition the most solemn topic of his official farewell to his countrymen: Towards the preservation of your Government, and the...oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you res1st with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. ... In... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - 2004 - 558 Seiten
...we finish this point, Washington spoke thusly in his Farewell Address of September 17, 1796: Toward the preservation of your Government and the permanency...upon its principles, however specious the pretexts... It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2005 - 417 Seiten
...only that you steadily discountenance irregular opposition to its acknowledged authority, bat aiso that you resist with care [the]! spirit of innovation...principles however specious the pretexts. — One method of assanlt may bo to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - 2007 - 216 Seiten
...both speeches defend the rule of law against "the spirit of innovation." Washington states: "Toward the preservation of your government and the permanency...present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you speedily discountenance irregular opposition to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2007 - 358 Seiten
...security and happiness of America presupposes statesmen who are willing to defend the Constitution and "resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles. however specious the pretexts.""0 Why then. we must ask again. the language from President Bush and neoconservatives today... | |
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Towards the preservation of your Government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit... 
