 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 680 pages
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...despotism, aa other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether any othei convention we can obtain, may be able to make a bettei constitution : for when you assemble a... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1867 - 766 pages
...... 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... | |
 | Joseph Alden - United States - 1869 - 308 pages
...important subjects." " I doubt whether any other coiv vention we can obtain may be able to make a bettef constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - Elocution - 1871 - 664 pages
...shall become so corrupted aa to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. 2. I donbt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may...assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those mon all their prejudices, their passions, their errors... | |
 | Charles Lanman - Diplomatic and consular service, Japanese - 1872 - 404 pages
...at the strong sides of the republic. Now we shall investigate some of the causes of its weakness. " When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1873 - 266 pages
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted, as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....constitution. For when you assemble a number of men, to have tne advantage of their joint wisdom, you assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passion?,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 796 pages
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 556 pages
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Statesmen - 1876 - 214 pages
...... 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... | |
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I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions,... 
