 I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their...  Hearings - Page 289by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1947Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...mass of corruption and • putrefaction — food for worms." J. Adams. 25 "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society, but the people...them, but to inform their discretion by education." Jefferson. 26 "Without knowledge, the blessings of liberty cannot be fully enjoyed, or long preserved."... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...a mass of corruption and putrefaction — food for worms." J. Adams. 25 " I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society, but the people...them, but to inform their discretion by education." Jefferson. 26 "Without knowledge, the blessings of liberty cannot be fully enjoyed, or long preserved."... | |
 | 164 pages
...executive functiona" quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves ; and if we think...them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitntional power. " Pardon me, sir, for this difference... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 676 pages
...judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think...them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. Pardon me, Sir, for this difference... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 pages
...judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think...them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. Pardon me, Sir, for this difference... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 pages
...the world, but quite possible that one may know himself." — CHAMBERS. 13. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves...them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. 14. A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed unbeliever in religion,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 320 pages
...safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves ; and if we think Hhcm not enlightened enough to exercise their control with...them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. 14. A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed unbeliever in religion,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 350 pages
...the world, but quite possible that one may know himself." — CHAMBERS. 13. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves;...them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. 14. A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed unbeliever in religion,... | |
 | Martin Van Buren - 1867 - 454 pages
...judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think...them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." Nor have the people been slow to exert... | |
 | Martin Van Buren - 1867 - 466 pages
...the people themselves ; and if \vc think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with n wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it...them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of ahases of constitutional power." Nor have the people been slow to exert... | |
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