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...we propose will be adopted. If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, however can we afterwards defend our work? LET US RAISE A...THE WISE AND HONEST CAN REPAIR; THE EVENT IS IN THE HAND OF GOD." CHAPTER IV BEGINNING THE STRUCTURE A GERMAN writer speaks of America's "worship of the...

...chair, in tones solemn with suppressed emotion, he said : It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work! Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the...

...Washington. His words are as relevant today as they were when he spoke them almost 200 years ago. He said, "If to please the people we offer what we ourselves...afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard," he said, "to which the wise and the honest can now repair." That is a philosophy that has always stood...

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...necessary." In his speech he said, or so we are told: It is all too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we propose less what we know to be necessary, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard...

...of 1787. our most successful innovation in government, particularly Washington's opening challenge: "If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves...work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair." Notes 1. Aristotle, Politics, 4.2.1289. trans. Benjamin Jowctl tNew York: Modem...

...among nations should be fair and equitable" — Franklin. Fifteenth Street entrance, south section: "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair." — Washington. Ass1stance Resources Brandes, Joseph. Herbert Hoover and Economic Diplomacy: Department...

...satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. . . . —...

...Advertiser, although Commager and others date it the 17th. 340 It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God. GEORGE WASHINGTON, remarks at the first Continental...