 | John Thomas Morris Johnston - 1917 - 662 pages
...rose from the chair and made a brief and effective speech. He said: "It is too probable that no plan will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise the standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black, Herbert Francis Wright - 1919 - 740 pages
...he gave utterance at the beginning of the great convention : "It is too probable that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer \vha,t wte ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to... | |
 | 1920 - 560 pages
...interrupted the discussion with an expression of opinion that established his position beyond question. He said : "It is too probable that no plan we propose...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The... | |
 | Edgar H. Webster - 1920 - 262 pages
...when he heard that statement, he rose from the President's chair and in tones of suppressed emotion, said, 'It is too probable that no plan we propose...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1920 - 1122 pages
...prospect seemed dark, Washington, addressing his associates, said : "It is possible that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us here raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the... | |
 | James Montgomery Beck - 1920 - 184 pages
...him and, as Gouverneur Morris narrated years afterwards, said: "It is too probable that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and just can repair. The event... | |
 | 1920 - 748 pages
...not often visible in him, said, "It is too probable that no plan which we propose will be adopted ; if to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event... | |
 | National Institute of Social Sciences - 1920 - 210 pages
...he expressed, as no one ever better expressed the true spirit of representative government. He said: "If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event... | |
 | 1921 - 616 pages
...prospect seemed dark, Washington, addressing his associates, said : "It is possible that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us here raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the... | |
 | State Bar Association of North Dakota - 1921 - 470 pages
...head, suggesting a clause that would command the plaudits of the crowd, the great Washington said: "If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The... | |
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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which... 
