| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 320 σελίδες
...one man should know all the world, but quite 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 Hhcm not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is, not... | |
| 1908 - 442 σελίδες
...ignorant state. And unenlightened people he classed as an incompetent people. He loved them all, saying: "And if 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 take it from... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 σελίδες
...70. Neither natural right nor reason subjects the body of a man to restraint for debt. 7«I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves. 72. My principle is to do whatever is right and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal... | |
| 1918 - 350 σελίδες
...common people is rewarded by their obstinate fidelity to his name as a type and symbol. "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves, " wrote Jefferson, and with the people themselves is the depository of his fame. CHAPTER V THE KNICKERBOCKER... | |
| Allen Johnson - 1918 - 306 σελίδες
...common people is rewarded by their obstinate fidelity to his name as a type and symbol. "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves, " wrote Jefferson, and with the people themselves is the depository of his fame. CHAPTER V THE KNICKERBOCKER... | |
| United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics - 1945 - 428 σελίδες
...with job opportunities elsewhere. Remedy I know no safe depository -of the ultimate powers of soc1ety but the people themselves; and if we think, them not...with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to tal(e it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON As we develop... | |
| 1940 - 342 σελίδες
...close of this program broadcast over the NBC Red Network. "I know no safe depository of the ultinuii powers of society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enou^rto exercise their control with a wholesomt discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1948 - 1352 σελίδες
...efficiency. We are firm believers in the following quotation from the writings of Thomas Jefferson: I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people nraiselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control "th a wholesome discretion,... | |
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