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" Besides, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential... "
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States in the Years 1853-1854: With Remarks ... - Page 291
by Frederick Law Olmsted - 1904
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Aspects of Americanization

Edward Hale Bierstadt - Aliens - 1922 - 272 pages
...corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may become persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing the essential right, on a legal basis, is while our rulers are honest, ourselves united. From the conclusion...
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Americanism and Catholicism

Frederick Joseph Kinsman - Patriotism - 1924 - 268 pages
...mysteries of the Trinity. But is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ... It can never be too often repeated, that the time...while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united." Jefferson had in 1779 'drawn up a bill for separating Church and State in Virginia and for granting...
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The Essential American Tradition: An Anthology of Striking and Significant ...

Jesse Lee Bennett - American literature - 1925 - 360 pages
...persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing essential right, on a legal basis, is while our rulers are honest, ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be...
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The Essential American Tradition: An Anthology of Striking and Significant ...

Jesse Lee Bennett - American literature - 1925 - 374 pages
...corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may become persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing essential right, on a legal basis, is while our rulers are honest, ourselves united. From the conclusion...
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Law Notes, Volume 30

Law - 1926 - 254 pages
...corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may become persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing essential right, on a legal basis, is while our rulers are honest, ourselves united. From the conclusion...
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Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American

Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 420 pages
...corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for...From the conclusion of this war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will...
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The Modern World, Volume 1

1926 - 228 pages
...corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may become persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for...right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be...
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Law and Letters in American Culture

Robert A. Ferguson - Law - 1984 - 456 pages
...with his mentors' assumptions that rulers would become venal and the people careless, Jefferson warns, "It can never be too often repeated, that the time...while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united" (p. 161). In context the later sections of Notes represent a political anatomy, f1xing every essential...
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A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for ...

John W. Shy - History - 1990 - 380 pages
...Britain, and so we shall have all the wars of Europe brought to our own doors. Jefferson predicted that "From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill." 23 Having faced apathy, riot, and even secessionism as governor of Virginia when he had tried to mobilize...
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The Divided Heart: Essays on Protestantism and the Enlightenment in America

Henry F. May - History - 1991 - 230 pages
...corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecution, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time...conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain...
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