 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 556 trang
...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...being generally received, and thereby lose all the salutary effects and great advantages resulting naturally in our favor among foreign nations, as well... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 214 trang
...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 a syllable...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 trang
...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. I have never whispered a syllable...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1877 - 982 trang
...that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I hiive the maintaining of the school In Rosbury ; and, I hope, or, at least, boni, and here they shall die. ... I hope, therefore, for our own sakes, as purt of the people, and... | |
 | Timothy Walker - 1882 - 850 trang
...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...these walls they were born, and here they shall die." Could we but adopt and practise these sentiments, with regard to the questions which have since arisen,... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1883 - 612 trang
...syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they ceived the electral votes of all the States with the ex- were born, and here they shall die- If every one of us, ception of Massachusetts, Connecticut, ana Delaware, in returning to his constituents, were to report... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1884 - 556 trang
...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...being generally received, and thereby lose all the salutary effects and great advantages resulting naturally in our favor among foreign nations, as well... | |
 | Albert Stickney - 1885 - 190 trang
...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. I have " never whispered a syllable of them abroad. "With" in these walls they were born, and here they shall "die." Gouvernenr Morris said : " . . that... | |
 | 1886 - 190 trang
...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...were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavor to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, and thereby... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 trang
...because I am not sure that this is not the best. The opinion I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable...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... | |
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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... 
