 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...Adams. 25 "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society, but the people themselves : and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise...is, not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." Jefferson. 26 "Without knowledge, the blessings of liberty cannot be fully... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...Adams. 25 " I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society, but the people themselves : and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise...is, not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." Jefferson. 26 "Without knowledge, the blessings of liberty cannot be fully... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 pages
...CHAMBERS. 13. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise...is, not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. 14. A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed... | |
 | 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...is, not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. 14. A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 350 pages
...CHAMBERS. 13. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise...is, not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. 14. A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed... | |
 | Martin Van Buren - 1867 - 454 pages
...enough. 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...remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." Nor have the... | |
 | 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 from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of ahases of constitutional power." Nor have the... | |
 | 1868 - 450 pages
...enough. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but tho people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise...remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. " Pardon me,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 750 pages
...mankind. And If we cannot entrust these decisions to the people, then, as Thomas Jefferson once said, "If we think them not enlightened enough to exercise...remedy Is not to take It from them but to Inform their discretion by education." OF HON. LEROY JOHNSON OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Friday,... | |
 | 1908 - 442 pages
...ignorant state. And unenlightened people he classed as an incompetent people. He loved them all, saying: "And if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control (of the ultimate powers of society) with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from... | |
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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... 
