 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 pàgines
...to this constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice...I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad." " Much of the strength and efficiency of any government, in procuring and securing happiness to the... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 pàgines
...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...these walls they were born, and here they shall die. . . . On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of this convention, who... | |
 | William Read Staples - 1870 - 778 pàgines
...because I expect no better, and because I am not sure it is not the best. The opinions I have held of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good. I have...these walls they were born and here they shall die." Washington approved it and that secured it many friends. The citizens of the United States were far... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pàgines
...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...these walls they were born, and here they shall die. 5. If every one of us, in returning to his constituents, were to report the objictiona he has had to... | |
 | 1871 - 784 pàgines
...all its faults, if they are sue1.]. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the puMie good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad....these walls they were born, and here they shall die." Franklin's brother was a hard master, self-willed and passionate. His violent blows disheartened the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 556 pàgines
...to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice...objections he has had to it, and endeavour to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, and thereby lose all the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 796 pàgines
...to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice...objections he has had to it, and endeavour to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, and thereby lose all the... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1876 - 678 pàgines
...because I am not sure, that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I s-.icrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable...were to report the objections he has had to it, and endca\or to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its bein» yencrall/ received, and... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 216 pàgines
...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...these walls they were born, and here they shall die. . . . On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of this convention, who... | |
 | 1877 - 972 pàgines
...constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. Tlie opinions 1 have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good....them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and hero they shall die. ... I hope, therefore, for our own .sakes, as p;irt of the people, and for the... | |
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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. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these... 
