 | Frank Abbott Magruder - 1928 - 610 pagina’s
...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age [of the Revolution] well. I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...experience of the present ; and forty years of experience is worth a century of book reading ; and this they would say themselves were they to arise from the... | |
 | 1920 - 782 pagina’s
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...present but without the experience of the present ... I am certainly not an advocate of frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions . . .... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 268 pagina’s
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...present, but without the experience of the present; and 40 years of experience in government is worth a century of bookreading; and this they would say themselves,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 130 pagina’s
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...present, but without the experience of the present; and 40 years of experience in government is worth a century of bookreading; and this they would say themselves,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 100 pagina’s
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...present, but without the experience of the present; and 40 years of experience in government is worth a century of book reading; and this they would say themselves... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1944 - 922 pagina’s
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with;... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 pagina’s
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...in government is worth a century of book-reading. ... I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. . .... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - 1918 - 304 pagina’s
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I know that age well. I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...like the present but without the experience of the past. * * * I am certainly not an advocate of frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1978 - 1290 pagina’s
...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew this age well ; I belonged to it, and labored 'with it. It deserved well of its country. It was...say themselves, were they to rise from the dead." (Quoted In Douglas, "Stare Decisis"p. 31 (1949).) Permit me to quote one more statement which seems... | |
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... Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... 
