 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1853 - 466 pages
...institutions ; that experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country : that facility in changes,...; and remember, especially, that for the efficient manage ment of your common interests, in a country so ex tensive as ours, a government of as much vigour,... | |
 | Presidents - 1853 - 514 pages
...government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. credit jf mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual...especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - United States - 1854 - 532 pages
...by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country-that facility in change upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes...security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself wifl ' find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and ad- • justed, its surest guardian.... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 590 pages
...institutions ; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes,...especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of as much vigor as is consistent with the... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitutions of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit...hypothesis and opinion ; and remember especially, that from the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitutions of a country ; that facility in changes upon the credit...hypothesis and opinion; and remember especially, that from the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government... | |
 | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - Constitutions - 1854 - 422 pages
...institutions ; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes,...the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion ; and rememher, especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 376 pages
...tendency of the existing constitution ofacouutry ; that facility in changes, upon the mere credit of hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change,...that, for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigour as ie consistent with... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 372 pages
...real tendency of the existing constitutioiiofacountry ; thatfaoilityinchanges, upon the mere credit of hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change,...that, for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigour as is consistent with... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 pages
...OnS ; at expeence ¡ the --' to«* °° Vn " fmm » " SeS > " P0n the ° redlt ° f mere Vpothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change from the...of hypothesis and opinion; and remember, especially th t from by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitutions of a country; that facility... | |
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In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions ; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency... 
