 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1901 - Počet stránok 634
...any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. * * * Thus I consent to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. * * * If everyone of us in returning to our constituents were to report the objections he has had to... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1901 - Počet stránok 630
...any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. * * * Thus I consent to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. * * * If everyone of us in returning to our constituents were to report the objections he has had to... | |
 | Charles Arthur Conant - 1901 - Počet stránok 164
...presenting the semblance of harmony instead of divisions. " I consent to this Constitution," he declared, " because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best." Washington sought also to secure unanimity, and Hamilton declared : — " I am anxious that every member... | |
 | Edward Waterman Townsend - 1906 - Počet stránok 332
...and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are awaiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel;...and because I am not sure that it is not the best." Dr. Franklin then suggested the form in which the signatures are attached, "done in Convention by the... | |
 | Le Baron Bradford Colt - 1906 - Počet stránok 190
...its faults — if they are such — because I think a general government necessary for us. 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." The wisdom,... | |
 | Le Baron Bradford Colt - 1906 - Počet stránok 188
...its faults — if they are such — because I think a general government necessary for us. 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." The wisdom,... | |
 | George Morgan - 1907 - Počet stránok 550
...never approve them. It astonishes me to find this system approaching so near to perfection. I assent 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." Would Henry... | |
 | Gabriel Hanotaux - 1907 - Počet stránok 706
...an Assembly thus composed ? As for me, I accept this Constitution, because I hope for no better one and because I am not sure that it is not the best. I sacrifice to the public good the opinion I have formed of its defects. I have never whispered a word... | |
 | Horace Leslie Brittain - 1911 - Počet stránok 284
...little dispute with her sister, said, "But I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right." In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution,...expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - 1911 - Počet stránok 690
...our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the Monday MADISON September 17 purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent,...expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is notthe best. The opinions I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good — I have never... | |
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Thus I 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 I sacrifice to the public good. 
