 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1899 - 516 pages
...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Conduct of life - 1900 - 1082 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well: I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - Biography & Autobiography - 1900 - 494 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Political science - 1900 - 1504 pages
...that month.* — AUTOBIOGRAPHY, i, 40. FORD ED., i. 55. (1821.) 2841. EXPERIENCE, Governmental. — Forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading. — To SAMUEL KERCHIVAL. vii, 15. FORD ED., x, 42. (M., 1816.) 2842. EXPERIMENT, Trying.— The precept... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 598 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 1044 pages
...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with;... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1907 - 350 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well ; I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...of experience in government is worth a century of book reading ; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well ; I belonged to it and labored with it. 15. 40. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but lacked the experience of the present ; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century... | |
 | ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1919 - 572 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with;... | |
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... Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... 
