 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 960 Seiten
...path we have to pursue is so quiet, that we have nothing scarcely to propose to our legislature. * * * If we can prevent the Government from wasting the...now under such a course of application as nothing can derange, but war or federalism. The gripe of the latter has shown itself as deadly as the jaws... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 966 Seiten
...path we have to pursue is so quiet, that we have nothing scarcely to propose to our legislature. * * * If we can prevent the Government from wasting the...now under such a course of application as nothing can derange, but war or federalism. TJie gripe of the latter has shown itself as deadly as the jaws... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 978 Seiten
...path we have to pursue is so quiet, that we have nothing scarcely to propose to our legislature. * * * If we can prevent the Government from wasting the...now under such a course of application as nothing can derange, but war or federalism. The gripe of the latter has shown itself as deadly as the jaws... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 Seiten
...scarcely to propose to our Legislature," — so he wrote a few days before Congress was to meet. " If we can prevent the government from wasting the...pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy." £The energy of reform was exhausted, the point of departure no longer in sight ; the ever-increasing... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 Seiten
...scarcely to propose to our Legislature," — so he wrote a few days before Congress was to meet. " If we can prevent the government from wasting the...pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy." The energy of reform was exhausted, the point of departure no longer in sight ; the ever-increasing... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1890 - 432 Seiten
...Southern rule, and under the system of the President who began his career by declaring that if he could prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretence of protecting them, they must become happy.1 The navy and army ef the United States were employed, and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 Seiten
...economy you recommend. — To GOVERNOR PLUMER, vii, 19. (M., 1816.) 2358. ECONOMY, Happiness and.— If we can prevent the government from wasting the...pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. — To THOMAS COOPER, iv, 453. FORD ED., viii, 178. (W., 1802.) 2359. ECONOMY, Honesty and.— A rigid... | |
 | Louis Martin Sears - 1927 - 360 Seiten
...recovery from debt."141 To the political economist, Thomas Cooper, he enunciated the doctrine that, "If we can prevent the government from wasting the...of application as nothing could derange but war or federalism."142 He believed that sound finances could be readily adjusted to emergencies, and that... | |
 | Louis Martin Sears - 1927 - 368 Seiten
...recovery from debt.""1 To the political economist, Thomas Cooper, he enunciated the doctrine that, "If we can prevent the government from wasting the...of application as nothing could derange but war or federalism."142 He believed that sound finances could be readily adjusted to emergencies, and that... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee - 1949 - 722 Seiten
...Government,, the executive branch, should be answerable to you gentlemen here. President Jefferson said : If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. The same prudence which in private life would forbid... | |
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If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. 
