 | Maxims - 1887 - 1332 pages
...so merry a note, As he who cannot change a groat ? Power. 1. All human power is but comparative. 2. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. Washington. 3. For sovereign power all laws are broken. Sp. 4. He is most powerful who governs himself.... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...will have no validity on the dissolution of the union. We shall be left nearly in a state of nature ; or we may find, by our own unhappy experience, that...progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyrrany ; and that arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.... | |
 | United States - 1889 - 242 pages
...will have no validity on the dissolution of the union. We shall be left nearly in a state of nature ; or we may find, by our own unhappy experience, that...progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyrrany ; and that arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1891 - 220 pages
...written about three years before, " was left almost in a state of nature," and the were learning by their own unhappy experience "that there is a natural and...easily established on the ruins of liberty abused by licentiousness." Yet even amid this general bankruptcy several States passed laws impairing the... | |
 | George Washington - Quotations, American - 1894 - 510 pages
...arrangements for the security of that liberty of which it seems to be possessed. 179 °ANARCHY AND TYRANNY. There is a natural and necessary progression, from...extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny ; and arbitrary power is most easily established, on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. REPUBLICANISM.... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...It is a wicked and cowardly thing to attempt to rule the spirit by the 'flesh. — * * FW Robertson. There is a natural and necessary progression, from...extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny ; and arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. — Washington.... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1896 - 616 pages
...will have no validity on a dissolution of the union. 'We shall be left nearly in a state of nature ; or we may find by our own unhappy experience that...on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." This circular letter of Washington the governors of the * Spark*, viii., 444. 86 THE CONFEDERATION.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 466 pages
...will have no validity on a dissolution of the Union. We shall be left nearly in a state of nature; or we may find, by our own unhappy experience, that...on the ruins of liberty, abused to licentiousness. — G. WASHINGTON. THE INAUGURATION OF WASHINGTON. Washington was never dramatic ; but on great occasions... | |
 | United States - 1897 - 1196 pages
...European Powers with the United States of America have no validity on a dissolution of the Union, and we may find by our own unhappy experience that there...natural and necessary progression from the extreme of anarchv to the extreme of tyranny, and that arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 494 pages
...will have no validity on a dissolution of the Union. We shall be left nearly in a state of nature ; or we may find, by our own unhappy experience, that...on the ruins of liberty, abused to licentiousness. As to the second article, which respects the performance of public justice, Congress have, in their... | |
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We shall be left nearly in a state of nature ; or we may find by our own unhappy experience that there is a natural and necessary progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny, and that arbitrary power is most easily established on... 
