 | Moorhouse F. X. Millar, Moorhouse I. X. Millar - 1922 - 358 Seiten
...reform, saved the chances for "liberty connected with order"28 by his bold and characteristic remark: " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1922 - 336 Seiten
...could question that it gave the keynote on which he hoped to maintain the business of the Convention. " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted," Washington said very gravely. " Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please... | |
 | Thomas Walter Bickett, North Carolina. Governor (1917-1921 : Bickett) - 1923 - 418 Seiten
...over the Convention and had had but little to say, arose and exclaimed in tones of suppressed emotion: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work?... | |
 | James Montgomery Beck - 1924 - 358 Seiten
...delegates, who were considering the acute nature of the crisis : "It is too probable that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and just can repair. The event... | |
 | United States. Adjutant-General's Office - 1924 - 52 Seiten
...said with solemn tones and suppressed emotion : " It is probable that no plans that we propose would be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The... | |
 | Blanton Fortson - 1924 - 24 Seiten
...legislative chamber in the United States ! Would that they were engraved in the hearts of all legislators! "If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove — " How many of the present evils of government are due to the yielding to this ancient weakness on the part... | |
 | Schuyler Crawford Wallace - 1924 - 244 Seiten
...it be known that he did not believe that tinkering with the document would be sufficiently radical. "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted," he said. "Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1925 - 1090 Seiten
...the midst of them, his countenance more than usually solemn, his eye seeming to look into futurity, said : — 'It is too probable that no plan we propose...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our course? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the... | |
 | Conrad E. Patzer - 1924 - 592 Seiten
...exhibit symptoms of that peculiar kind of moral cowardice which is wont to afflict free governments, " If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our workf Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair." THE RURAL SCHOOL OF THE... | |
 | Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ) - 1925 - 106 Seiten
...head, suggesting a clause that would command the plaudits of the crowd, the great Washington said: "If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove how can we afterwards defend our work Î Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair.... | |
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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which... 
