 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 818 Seiten
...limits of its authority. It is the servant of fourand-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity...made by the people, and answerable to the people. The peo17 pie of the United States have declared that this Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 Seiten
...This triplicate form was a favorite with Webster, and reappears in some of his other famous dicta : " The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people " ; " One country, one constitution, one destiny" ; " I was born an American ; I live an American ;... | |
 | John Freeman Baker - 1887 - 156 Seiten
...the people. Upon these two pillars is erected the whole fabric of our freedom."—JOHN QUiNCY ADAMS. "It is, sir, the People's Constitution, the People's...People ; made by the People ; and answerable to the People."—WEBSTER. NEW YORK & LONDON GP PUTNAM'S SONS COPYRIGHT BY JOHN F. BAKER Press of TO ML BAKER... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 Seiten
...This triplicate form was a favorite with Webster, and reappears in some of his other famous dicta : " The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people " ; " One country, one constitution, one destiny" ; " I was born an American ; I live an American ;... | |
 | 1888 - 892 Seiten
...Parker was not original. As early as ISoO, Daniel Webster had used these words in a public speech : " the people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." And here is how the same idea was handled by Chief-Justice Marshall as far back its 1819: "The government... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 Seiten
...disorganization, disunion, and nullification. 2178 Daniel Webster : Speech, March 10, 1831. At Dinner in New York. The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. 2179 Daniel Webster: Sprec/i, United States Senate, Jan. 26, 1830. The Reply to Hayne. Whatever government... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 Seiten
...thousand of the city. NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS. 1806-67. FROM A SPEECH IN THE US SENATE, 26 JANUARY, 1830. The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. DANIEL WEBSTER. 1782-1852. PARAPHRASE ON WEBSTER. ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION, BOSTON, 1850. The American... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1889 - 78 Seiten
...American, I will die an American ; " " we do it once, we do it for our generation, perhaps forever;'' "made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people " (of the government) ; " Liberty and union, one and inseparable, now and forever;" "Sink or swim,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Governor - 1891 - 702 Seiten
...tested, and has proved to be sound; and that it best secures what Mr. Webster felicitously called " The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." Three hundred or more subordinate public officers, now under divided control or none, would thus be... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - 1891 - 418 Seiten
...translation), is the chief pest of democratic countries. " The people's government " of which Webster spoke, " made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," must conform to the laws of politics and economics. Every citizen should understand somewhat of these... | |
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It is, sir, the people's Constitution, the people's Government; made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. 
