 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 discretion...  The Works of Thomas Jefferson - Strana 163autor/autoři: Thomas Jefferson - 1905Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 str.
...putrefaction — food for worms." J. Adams. 25 "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society, but the people themselves : and if we think...them, but to inform their discretion by education." Jefferson. 26 "Without knowledge, the blessings of liberty cannot be fully enjoyed, or long preserved."... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 str.
...putrefaction — food for worms." J. Adams. 25 " I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society, but the people themselves : and if we think...them, but to inform their discretion by education." Jefferson. 26 "Without knowledge, the blessings of liberty cannot be fully enjoyed, or long preserved."... | |
 | 164 str.
...system of law, constitute their particular department. — When the legislative or executive functiona" quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository...education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitntional power. " Pardon me, sir, for this difference of opinion ; my personal interest in such... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 str.
...possible that one may know himself." — CHAMBERS. 13. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves ; and if we think...them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. 14. A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed unbeliever in religion,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 320 str.
...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...them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. 14. A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed unbeliever in religion,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 350 str.
...possible that one may know himself." — CHAMBERS. 13. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think...them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. 14. A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed unbeliever in religion,... | |
 | Martin Van Buren - 1867 - 454 str.
...infidelity of their representatives. Truly says Mr. Jefferson, in one of his letters last referred to, " when the legislative or executive functionaries act...true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." Nor have the people been slow to exert their powers to reform abuses which they honestly, whether erroneously... | |
 | Martin Van Buren - 1867 - 466 str.
...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...discretion by education. This is the true corrective of ahases of constitutional power." Nor have the people been slow to exert their powers to reform abuses... | |
 | United States. Congress - 750 str.
...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...them but to Inform their discretion by education." OF HON. LEROY JOHNSON OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Friday, August 20, Í954 Mr. JOHNSON... | |
 | 1908 - 442 str.
...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...true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. (Ford X, 161 — 1820.) He did not believe and he could not believe that the mass of mankind had "been... | |
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