 ... it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights ; that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism; free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence ;...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Page 607by Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Williams - Natural history - 1809 - 498 pages
...constitutional right to a trial by jury. your last resolution, you say " that ce-n-: ' fideneei is every where the parent of despotism, * free government is Founded in jealousy, and * not in confidence." This is a sentiment pal* pably erroneous, and hostile to- the social na' ture of man : The experience... | |
 | Nathan Hoskins - Vermont - 1831 - 330 pages
...answer to one of the resolutions from Kentucky, where it is asserted, " that confidence is every where the parent of despotism, free government is founded in jealousy and not in confidence" : this, they declare, is a sentiment palpably erroneous, and hostile to the social nature of man. The... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...safety of our rights ; that confidence is every where the parent of despotism ; free goverument i* founded in jealousy and not in confidence ; it is...bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with jxnver; that our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which and no further our confidence... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1833 - 614 pages
...those who wish it to be believed, that man cannot be governed but by a rod of iron: that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men...fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is every where the parent of despotism: free government is founded in jealousy and not in confidence;... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - United States - 1836 - 680 pages
...those who wish it to be believed that man cannot be governed but by a rod of iron; that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men...for the safety of our rights ; that confidence is every where the parent of despotism ; free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence... | |
 | New Hampshire. General Court. Senate - Legislative journals - 1843 - 570 pages
...command public confidence. Our motto should be, "everything for principle, nothing for men." "It would be a dangerous delusion, were a confidence in the men...silence our fears for the safety of our rights. That eonfidenee is everywhere the parent of despotism. True government is founded .in jealousy, not in confidence.... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 558 pages
...Kentucky Resolutions of 1798. One of them uses the following emphatic language : "That it would be a dangerous delusion, were a confidence in the men...fears for the safety of our rights. That confidence is every where the parent of despotism. Free gorernment is founded in jealousy, not in confidence —... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. Senate - Ohio - 1849 - 492 pages
...despotism. 3. That free government is everywhere founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. 4. That it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes...those whom we are obliged to trust with power.— Ib. 386. These are supposed to be the articles of the true political church South. Indeed, the entire... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Alien and Sedition laws, 1798 - 1850 - 274 pages
...those who wish it to be believed, that man cannot be governed but by a rod of iron: that it would be a dangerous delusion, were a confidence in the men...has accordingly' fixed the limits to which and no forther our confidence may go; and let the honest advocate of confidence read the alien and sedition-acts,... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Alien and Sedition laws, 1798 - 1850 - 272 pages
...those- who wish it to be believed, that man cannot be governed but by a rod of iron: that it would be a dangerous delusion, were a confidence in the men...confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism ; free govern- X. v^ ment is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence ;*it is jealousy and not confidence... | |
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