 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 afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which...  Our Governmental Machine - Page 80by Schuyler Crawford Wallace - 1924 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1900 - 342 pages
...from his President's chair, he said : " 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 disprove, how can we afterward defend our work. Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest... | |
 | 1889 - 1088 pages
...unwontedly solemn with suppressed emotion, ' It is too probable that no plan -we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained....we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work P Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair: the... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - 266 pages
...organize, when success seemed hopeless, and despair suggested fatal compromise, Washington said, —" 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 and honest can repair; the event... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 994 pages
...of its duty and opportunity. He said, " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained....work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." " I am the State," said Louis the Fourteenth,... | |
 | 1887 - 636 pages
...men together in a common oaase. He said: "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 oarselvee disapprove, how oan we afterward defend oar work? Let as raise a standard to which wise and... | |
 | District of Columbia. Board of Trustees of Public Schools - 1888 - 940 pages
...eyes seeming to look into futurity, said; 'It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained....we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work f Let us raise a standard to which tho wise and the honest can repair: the... | |
 | Frederick Charles Johnson - 1888 - 442 pages
...said: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict ia to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how oan we afterward defend oar work? Let as raise a standard to which wise and the honest oau repair.... | |
 | 1889 - 638 pages
...of its duty and opportunity. He said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained....work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." " I am the state," said Louis the Fourteenth,... | |
 | 1889 - 650 pages
...of its duty and opportunity. He said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained....work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." " I am the state," said Louis the Fourteenth,... | |
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