| Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1906 - 264 pages
...establishment of the manifold good things in this constitution, and of getting rid of the bad. ... I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It Is always oppressive. The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done.... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...and will establish in the fullness of time those things not yet ripe for establishment. So be it. • I OWN I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people. The late... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 382 pages
...trials, if the present one should fail. We are never permitted to despair of the commonwealth. . . . I own, I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people. The late... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - History - 1926 - 514 pages
...formed after hearing and weighing everything which the wisdom of man could offer on these subjects. I own, I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people. The late... | |
| James Francis Lawson - Constitutional history - 1926 - 408 pages
...domestic conditions which gave concern to the patriots at home, as we may see from a letter to Madison:6 I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done.... | |
| Carriers - 1955 - 120 pages
...might still be alive. Those of us who fear regimentation love to read Jefferson's words, "I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease at the expense of the people." As one... | |
| Theodore Dreiser - Fiction - 1987 - 1168 pages
...judgment has been formed on all these points after having heard every thing which could be urged on them. I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. The late rebellion in Massachusets has given more alarm than I think it should have done.... | |
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