 | Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1893 - 582 pages
...certain to produce satisfactory results. Jefferson was indeed a far-seeing statesman, and he "These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...governments ; and have proved themselves the wisest inventions ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation."... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1893 - 592 pages
...certain to produce satisfactory results. Jefferson was indeed a far-seeing statesman, and he says: "These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...governments ; and have proved themselves the wisest inventions ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation."... | |
 | Joshua William Caldwell - Constitutional history - 1895 - 222 pages
...proper development indisputably requires an enlarged right of self-government. Thomas Jefferson said : " Those wards called Townships in New England, are the...exercise of self-government and for its preservation." * John Fiske, who quotes this saying, expresses his own opinion of the Township system as follows :... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1896 - 576 pages
...of Jefferson, who eighty years ago desired to see the system transplanted to his own Virginia: — "Those wards called townships in New England are the...preservation. ... As Cato, then, concluded every speech with the words ' Carthago delenda est, ' so do I every opinion with the injunction, 'Divide the counties... | |
 | Charles Henry Douglas - Connecticut - 1896 - 124 pages
...civil interests, they endanger their own peace and prosperity. '<©ut transtultt, sustinet.' " These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their government, and have proved themselves the icisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the... | |
 | John Fiske - United States - 1897 - 460 pages
...system than under the Virginia system. t°o P ™Zp' Jefferson said: " Those wards, called government, townships in New England, are the vital principle...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. 1 . . . As Cato, then, concluded every speech with the words Carthago delenda est, so do I every opinion... | |
 | John Fiske - Maryland - 1897 - 462 pages
...system than under the Virginia system. t°op™^ipf Jefferson said : " Those wards, called government. townships in New England, are the vital principle...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 ... As Cato, then, concluded every speech with the words Carthago delenda est, so do... | |
 | John Fiske - United States - 1897 - 466 pages
...than under the Virginia system, toirmhip' Jefferson said : " Those wards, called government. townsnips in New England, are the vital principle of their governments,...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 . . . As Cato, then, concluded every speech with the words Carthago delenda est, so... | |
 | Lyman P. Powell - 1898 - 656 pages
...type prevailed which Thomas Jefferson praised and wished transferred to Virginia, for, said he : " Those wards called townships in New England are the...exercise of self-government and for its preservation." It is well, however, to note, that Mr. Charles Borgeaud, the eminent Genevan historian, in his work... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - Civics - 1898 - 204 pages
...arguments will you advance in its favor? LESSON XV TOWN GOVERNMENT "The town governments of New England proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...exercise of self-government and for its preservation." — Thomas Jefferson. Early Town Government in New England. — In New England, after you pass from... | |
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These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. 
