 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 396 pages
...because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable...were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavor to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, and thereby... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1906 - 286 pages
...because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable...were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavor to gain partizans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, and thereby... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1906 - 364 pages
...because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable...these walls they were born and here they shall die." So long as this sublime spirit of patriotism and mutual concession shall govern the counsels and conduct... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1906 - 386 pages
...its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a . AS STATESMAN AND DIPLOMATIST 95 syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born and here they shall die." So long as this sublime spirit of patriotism and mutual concession shall govern the counsels and conduct... | |
 | Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1909 - 510 pages
...it was completed, he said : "The opinions I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall...were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavor to obtain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, and... | |
 | Joseph H. Choate - 1910 - 318 pages
...because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable...these walls they were born and here they shall die.'' He carried his point and all the members signed. It can hardly be doubted that it was the combined... | |
 | Joseph Hodges Choate - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 318 pages
...because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable...these walls they were born and here they shall die." He carried his point and all the members signed. It can hardly be doubted that it was the combined... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1911 - 690 pages
...because I am not sure, that it is notthe best. The opinions I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good — I have never whispered a syllable...were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavor to gain partizans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, and thereby... | |
 | Horace Leslie Brittain - Readers - 1911 - 284 pages
...and because I am not sure that it is not best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable...born, and here they shall die. If every one of us, returning to our constituents, were to report the objections he had to it, and endeavor to gain partisans... | |
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Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these... 
