 | Edward Waterman Townsend - Constitutional history - 1906 - 332 pages
...instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. I doubt whether any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1906 - 746 pages
...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change my opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all... | |
 | Kansas State Historical Society - Kansas - 1906 - 684 pages
...Franklin was eighty-one years old, in the convention that formed the constitution of the United States. "The older I grow the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all... | |
 | Leonard Brown - Conduct of life - 1908 - 630 pages
...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. In these sentiments, sir. I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such, because... | |
 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - United States - 1909 - 632 pages
...several parts of this constitution which I do not approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. The older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others." That the constitution might go before the people supported by apparent unanimity, he proposed as the... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - United States - 1909 - 648 pages
...several parts of this constitution which I do not approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. The older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others." That the constitution might go before the people supported by apparent unanimity, he proposed as the... | |
 | Horace Leslie Brittain - Readers - 1911 - 284 pages
...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all... | |
 | Charles Morris - United States - 1913 - 434 pages
...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. . . . " In these sentiments, sir, I agree to that Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such,... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 634 pages
...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. . . . In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 632 pages
...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. . . . In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such... | |
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older... 
