 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 960 pages
...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 - United States - 1864 - 966 pages
...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 - United States - 1879 - 978 pages
...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 - United States - 1889 - 466 pages
...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 - United States - 1889 - 466 pages
...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 - United States - 1890 - 432 pages
...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 - Conduct of life - 1900 - 1082 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903 - 504 pages
...correspondences abroad, as the King of Prussia did much, and his grandfather sometimes, I know not; but certainly such a correspondence would be very interesting to...government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pre-. tence of taking care of them, they must become happy. Their finances are now under such a course... | |
 | Louis Martin Sears - History - 1927 - 360 pages
...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 - History - 1927 - 368 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
