| Orville James Victor - 1861 - 572 halaman
...regulators of the law, and, as such, are actually desirable. Washington said of party spirit : " It is a fire not to be quenched ; it demands a uniform vigilance...flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume." That " uniform vigilance" is the price of our liberties ; so long as it is exercised by our public... | |
| 1861 - 996 halaman
...danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance...flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume." There would seem to be, theoretically, no impossihility in a government founded on consent, yet strong... | |
| George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 halaman
...danger of excess, the eftbrt ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire, not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance,...prevent its bursting into a flame ; lest, instead of warning, it consume." How truly, in sixty years, all this has been confirmed. Nay, the first four elections... | |
| George Washington - 1862 - 36 halaman
...danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance...intrusted with its administration to confine themselves 0 within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the , ^ powers of one... | |
| Richard Hofstadter - 1969 - 306 halaman
...danger of an excess of it. He closed this passage by branding the spirit of party in a metaphor: "A fire not to be quenched; it demands a uniform vigilance...flame, lest instead of warming, it should consume." No one can doubt that by the end of his administration Washington's role had become that of a committed... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - 1961 - 630 halaman
...constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it: A Fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest it should not only warm but consume.12 It is in a particular manner to be regretted that our parties... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations - 1955 - 172 halaman
...Committee through this Resolution 12, calling for nn "exploratory convention." Again quoting Washington, "It is important likewise that the habits of thinking...in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres."... | |
| Ralph Ketcham - 1987 - 294 halaman
...constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance...flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume." When such vigilance was lacking, Washington warned, "the alternate domination of one faction over another... | |
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