 The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. In Massachusetts it had been fully confirmed by experience, that they are daily misled into the most baneful measures and...  The North American Review - Էջ 62խմբագրել է - 1841Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1897 - 678 էջ
...the government. They want information, and are constantly liable to be misled. MR. GKRRT. The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The...want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. . . . He had, he said, been too republican heretofore; he was etill, however, republican; but had been... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 676 էջ
...the government. They want information, and are constantly liable to be misled. Mr. GERRY. The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dujafe oT pretended patriots. In Massachusetts, it had been fully confirmed by experience, that they... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 էջ
...information, and are constantly liable to be misled." Mr. Gerry, of Massachusetts, declared, " The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The...designing men, and which no one on the spot can refute." 1 Colonel Mason, of Virginia, admitted that " we • 1 On the very last day of the In that State, there... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1870 - 692 էջ
...information, and are constantly liable to be misled." Mr. Gerry, of Massachusetts, declared, " The evils we experi'ence flow from the excess of democracy....do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriota.' In Massachusetts, it had been fully confirmed by experience that they are daily misled into... | |
 | Frederick Charles Brightly - 1871 - 840 էջ
...legislatures. Mr. Gerry remarked, that "he did not like the election by the people;" he said, " the evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy ;...virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots." Mr. Madison, although he considered " the popular election of one branch of the national legislature,... | |
 | William Nichols Coler - 1873 - 482 էջ
...Legislatures. Mr. Gerry remarked that "he did not like the election by the people." He said, " The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy ;...virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots." Mr. Madison, although he considered " the popular election of one branch of the national legislature... | |
 | J.H. Rudald (and sons) - 1874 - 212 էջ
...Legislatures. Mr. Gerry remarked that "he did not like the election by the people." He said, " The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy; the...virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots." Mr. Madison, although he considered " the popular election of one branch of the National Legislature... | |
 | Charles Ingersoll - 1875 - 298 էջ
...government, he sat in the House of Representatives, and afterwards in the Senate. " Gerry.* The evils we experience flow from the " excess of democracy....designing men, and which "no one on the spot can refute. One principal " evil arises from the want of due provision for " those employed in the administration... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1876 - 678 էջ
...the government. They want information, and are constantly liable lo be misled. Mr. GERRY. The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The...patriots. In Massachusetts, it had been fully confirmed byexperience, that they are daily misled into the most baneful measures and opinions, by the false... | |
 | Thomas Lanier Clingman - 1877 - 644 էջ
...and constant topics of discussion in the convention. Mr. Gerry, of Massachusetts, said : " The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The...the dupes of pretended patriots. In Massachusetts it has been fully confirmed by experience, that they are daily misled into the most baneful measures and... | |
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