 | United States - 1819 - 542 pages
...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... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 552 pages
...competent and faithful representatives of every department. It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt; when they degenerate into a populace,...and ruin. Let us then look to the great cause and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us, by all wise and constitutional measures, promote intelligence... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - Legislative journals - 1828 - 750 pages
...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... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 650 pages
...that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the...to the great cause, and endeavour to preserve it in its full force. Let us, by all wise and constitutional measures, promote intelligence among the people,... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 606 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1836 - 530 pages
...competent and faithful representatives for every department. It is only when 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... | |
 | Alden Bradford - History - 1840 - 496 pages
...competent and faithful representatives for every department. It is only when the people are 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... | |
 | Alden Bradford - Canada History War of 1812 - 1840 - 494 pages
...competent and faithJul representatives for every department. It is only when the people are ignorcmt 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... | |
 | Alden Bradford - History - 1840 - 498 pages
...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 and ruin." He spoke in favor of measures for protection and defence against foreign powers — " many of our citizens... | |
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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... 
