 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 pagina’s
...experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading: and this they would say themselves, were they to rise...frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. 1 think moderate imperfections had better be borne with ; because, when once known, we accommodate... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pagina’s
...experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and notried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 pagina’s
...worth a century of book-reading : and this they would say themselves. were they to rise from ihedead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. 1 think moderate imperfections had better be borne with : because. when once known, we accommodate... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pagina’s
...experience of the present ; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book reading : and this they would say themselves were they to rise from the dead. We had not yet penetrated to the mother principle, that 'governments are republican only in proportion... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pagina’s
...without perience of the present; and forty years of ex3e in government is worth a century of book readnd this they would say themselves were they to rise from the dead. We had not yet penetrated to the mother principle, that ' governments are republican only in proportion... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 pagina’s
...experience of the present ; and forty years of experience in government, is worth a century of book-leading: and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate tor frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better... | |
 | Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - 1849 - 1140 pagina’s
...of ' the present; and forty years experience in gov' ernment is worth a century of book reading, ' and this they would say themselves, were they 'to rise from the dead. Laws and institutions •must go hand in hand with the progress of the 'human mind." for con" Let the... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 758 pagina’s
...experience of the present ; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading : and this they would say themselves, were they to rise...find practical means of correcting their ill effects. lîut I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 pagina’s
...the present ; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading : nnd this they would say themselves, were they to rise...find practical means of correcting their ill effects. Jlut I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 766 pagina’s
...experience of the present ; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading : and this they would say themselves, were they to rise...constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better bo borne with ; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means... | |
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It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. 
