 | Gleaves Whitney - Political Science - 2003 - 496 pages
...and things to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for...engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. Toward the preservation of your government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite... | |
 | Stephen Howard Browne - Political Science - 2003 - 180 pages
...likely "to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for...engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." 19 Like most who reflected on the matter, Washington acknowledged that the tendency to such associations... | |
 | George Farah - Political Science - 2004 - 236 pages
...things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for...engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion. —George Washington, in his farewell address, September 17,1796 We are not afraid to entrust the American... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - Education - 2004 - 558 pages
...we finish this point, Washington spoke thusly in his Farewell Address of September 17, 1796: Toward the preservation of your Government and the permanency...present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist... | |
 | Susan Dunn - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 396 pages
...branded parties "potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government." And, as if taking Republicans to task for their pro-French, antiEnglish stance, he warned against "excessive... | |
 | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - History - 2005 - 270 pages
...things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, and to usurp for...present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist... | |
 | Bruce Chadwick - History - 2005 - 595 pages
...things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for...engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion" and called parties the "worst enemy" of popular government. It was Washington, in the early days of... | |
 | Mark Sutherland, Dave Meyer, William J. Federer - Political Science - 2005 - 246 pages
...ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for the themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards...engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." - George Washington, Farewell Address, September 17,1796. 22 "It is easy to conceive that great evils... | |
 | Walter W. Powell, Richard Steinberg - History - 2006 - 679 pages
...things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, and to usurp for...the very engines which have lifted them to unjust domination" (Washington 1796). During the last quarter of the eighteenth century, most states outside... | |
 | Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 216 pages
...both speeches defend the rule of law against "the spirit of innovation." Washington states: "Toward the preservation of your government and the permanency...not only that you speedily discountenance irregular opposition to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of 17 David... | |
| |
However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert... 
