 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 Seiten
...Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that this is not the best. The opinion I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public...they shall die. If every one of us, in returning to his constituents, were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavor to gain partisans in... | |
 | William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 Seiten
...consent, Sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that this is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors...they shall die. If every one of us, in returning to his constituents, were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavor to gain partisans in... | |
 | Augustus Wood Clason - 1888 - 190 Seiten
...the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, here they shall die. If every one of us, in returning to his constituents, were to report the objections he has to it, and endeavor to gain partisans in support... | |
 | John Alden - 1889 - 414 Seiten
...therefore spoke in the following words of the duty devolving upon himself and his fellow delegates : " The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die. I hope that for our own sakes, as part... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 Seiten
...Franklin made the last speech of the convention. He said : I consent, sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it...these walls they were born and here they shall die. Whilst the last members were signing, Doctor 'Franklin, looking towards the President's chair, at the... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1891 - 220 Seiten
...hereafter for tinpurpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it...its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have IH-VIT whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall... | |
 | 1892 - 440 Seiten
...consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that this is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors,...they shall die. If every one of us, in returning to his constituents, were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavor to gain partisans in... | |
 | Erastus Howard Scott - 1893
...the purpose of cutting one another's throata. Thus I consent, sir,, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the beat The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 456 Seiten
...convention : "I consent to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good." And Washington wrote not long afterwards : ' ' There are some things in the new form, I will readily... | |
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Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. 
