 | Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ) - 1925 - 106 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 Î Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair.... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1926 - 428 pages
...the midst of them, his countenance more than usually solemn, his eye seeming to look into futurity, said : — ' It is too probable that no plan we propose...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our course? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1951 - 148 pages
...illustrated by the statement of George Washington, who was later quoted by Gouverneur Morris as saying — It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1953 - 614 pages
...can be stated with the words attributed to George Washington during the Constitutional Convention : "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... | |
 | 1925 - 188 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... | |
 | William Esslinger - 1955 - 194 pages
...older lesson had been respected too: George Washington's already quoted warning against mere expediency ("If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?"). The question of Roosevelt's personal responsibility for the peaceless... | |
 | 1922 - 672 pages
...futurity" addressed his counsel of warning and exhortation to the delegates: "It is too probable", he said, "that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1967 - 486 pages
...word, a demoralized world. George Washington is said to have said, early in the Convention of 1787, It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations - 1969 - 822 pages
...appeared unattainable. We both then recalled the words of Chairman of the Convention, George Washington: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful court id is to be sustained. If, to pleas* the people, we offer what we es disapprovf, how can w«... | |
 | United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter) - 1977 - 1096 pages
...Washington. His words are as relevant today as they were when he spoke them almost 200 years ago. 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," he said, "to which the wise and the honest can... | |
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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... 
