 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 afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which...  George Washington - Seite 29von Henry Cabot Lodge - 1917 - 776 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1986 - 226 Seiten
...could be persuaded to accept "what is necessary." In his speech he said, or so we are told: It is all too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted....conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we propose less what we know to be necessary, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 Seiten
...satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. . . . —... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - 2007 - 196 Seiten
...advocated half-way measures of amendment as likely to be more popular. To this Washington replied: It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapproved, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 Seiten
...Washington urged bold action. Gouverneur Morris quoted Washington at the opening of the convention: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the... | |
 | 1996 - 606 Seiten
...Demi-Gods." The tone of the gathering was set by Washington soon after his arrival in Philadelphia: "If to please the people we offer what we ourselves...disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Lee us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God."11... | |
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