 | James Montgomery Beck - 1920 - 184 Seiten
...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...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 the... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1920 - 1122 Seiten
...prospect seemed dark, Washington, addressing his associates, said : "It is possible that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...sustained. If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us here raise a standard to which... | |
 | 1921 - 616 Seiten
...prospect seemed dark, Washington, addressing his associates, said : "It is possible that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...sustained. If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us here raise a standard to which... | |
 | South Carolina Bar Association - 1921 - 306 Seiten
...took no part in the debate, growing apprehensive of the result, at one time expressed himself thus : "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can... | |
 | 1925 - 718 Seiten
...delegates, who were considering the acute nature of the crisis: "It is too probable that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...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 the wise... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1951 - 148 Seiten
...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...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 the wise... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1954 - 1004 Seiten
...of political repercussions, George Washington observed "It is too probable that no plan we proposed will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...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 the wise... | |
 | 1922 - 672 Seiten
...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...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 the wise... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1967 - 486 Seiten
...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...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 the wise... | |
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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 afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which... 
