 | United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter) - 1977 - 1096 str.
...Washington. His words are as relevant today as they were when he spoke them almost 200 years ago. He said, "If to please the people we offer what we ourselves...afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard," he said, "to which the wise and the honest can now repair." That is a philosophy that has always stood... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1986 - 226 str.
...could be persuaded to accept "what is necessary." In his speech he said, or so we are told: It is all too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted....conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we propose less what we know to be necessary, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1986 - 224 str.
...conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we propose less than what we know to be necessary, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hands of God. We are told Washington's speech transformed... | |
 | Gerald M. Pomper - 436 str.
...of 1787. our most successful innovation in government, particularly Washington's opening challenge: "If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves...work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair." Notes 1. Aristotle, Politics, 4.2.1289. trans. Benjamin Jowctl tNew York: Modem... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 str.
...satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. . . . —... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 str.
...from the date of its publication in the Advertiser, although Commager and others date it the 17th. 340 It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God. GEORGE WASHINGTON, remarks at the first Continental... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - 2007 - 196 str.
...advocated half-way measures of amendment as likely to be more popular. To this Washington replied: It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapproved, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 str.
...Washington urged bold action. Gouverneur Morris quoted Washington at the opening of the convention: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the... | |
 | 1996 - 606 str.
...Demi-Gods." The tone of the gathering was set by Washington soon after his arrival in Philadelphia: "If to please the people we offer what we ourselves...disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Lee us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God."11... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 str.
...unanimously elected as President of the Convention, rose during the Convention and admonished the delegates: If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the... | |
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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which... 
