 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 էջ
...competent and faithful representatives for every department. It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace,...sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the wioîng instrument of their own debasement... | |
 | 1817 - 798 էջ
...people ttiemneh'es («conic the willing instruments of their OTvn debasement and ruin. Let tu tuen look to the great cause, and endeavour to preserve it in full force. Let us ¿i/ all U'MC arid coiutittttioHttl mature* promete intelligence among the people, at the test meant... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1816 - 576 էջ
...competent and faithful representatives for every department. It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt; when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exereising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people... | |
 | 1817 - 442 էջ
...compeient and faithul representaiives for every department. It is only ivhen the people become ignorant and corrupt; when they degenerate into a populace,...they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. USUT;)ation is then an easy atlainment, and an usurper soon found. The people1 themselves become the... | |
 | 1817 - 728 էջ
...healthful state, every thing will be safe. " It is only," he says, " when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace,...they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty." He professes his sincere desire to preserve peace, so far as depends on the Executive, on just principles... | |
 | 1817 - 436 էջ
...every department. It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt; when they degenerate into i populace, that they are incapable of exercising the...sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement... | |
 | 1817 - 780 էջ
...competent and faithful representatives for every department. It it only when the jienple become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper will be found. The people themselves... | |
 | James MONROE (President of the United States of America.) - 1818 - 276 էջ
...competent and faithful representatives for every department. It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt; when they degenerate into a populace,...sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 էջ
...competent and faithful representatives for every department. It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace,...sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instrument of their own debasement... | |
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Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us, by all wise... 
