 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - Orators - 1839 - 108 pages
...they can get it ; and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments, under pretences of public safety or high public interest. It may be...mean to be masters. They think there need' be but litlle restraint upon themselves. Their notion of the public interest is apt to be quite closely connected... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 560 pages
...exercise power when they can get it ; and they will exercise it most undoubtedly, in popular goverments, under pretenses of public safety or high public interest....to be masters. They think there need be but little re' straint upon themselves. Their notion of the public interest is apt to be quite closely connected... | |
 | Williams College. Good Government Club - 1910 - 72 pages
...especially when they obstruct the pathway to selfish ambition. On this subject Webster has said: : i; It may be very possible that good intentions do really...but they mean to be masters. They think there need f be but little restraint upon themselves. Their notion of the public j interest is apt to be quite... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Standing Committee on the Judiciary - Socialism - 1920 - 1184 pages
...shall square with or differ from his own. Daniel Webster, at Niblo's Garden, New York, March 15, 1837: There are men in all ages who mean to exercise power...Their notion of the public interest is apt to be quite closelv connected with their own exercise of authority. They may not, indeed, always understand their... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - Education - 1947 - 800 pages
...the money necessary to support not only themselves but the bureaucrats. Daniel Webster once said : There are men in all ages who mean to exercise power...to be kind masters ; but they mean to be masters. III. I oppose all of these bills because whether their annual costs start at one hundred million, or... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1947 - 808 pages
...only themselves but the bureaucrats. Daniel Webster once said : There are men in all ages who meau to exercise power usefully ; but who mean to exercise...to be kind masters ; but they mean to be masters. III. I oppose all of these bills because whether their annual costs start at one hundred million, or... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Foreign trade regulation - 1951 - 648 pages
...minority. In other words, this present measure is a power measure, as we see it. Daniel Webster said: There are men in all ages who mean to exercise power...promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters. Webster's description, in my opinion, fits perfectly the men who are backing all measures such as this.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1967 - 216 pages
...was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. Would you like to make any comment on that observation of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1967 - 212 pages
...was made to guard the people ;against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they incii ii to be masters. Would you like to make any comment on that observation... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1967 - 216 pages
...was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. Would you like to make any comment on that observation of... | |
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It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be... 
