 | United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1821 - 328 pages
...individual' security. It is said with us to be unattainable. If it was once formed it would maintain itself. All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 726 pages
...in the minds of the many, that the truth ffradually gains ground." Three sentences later he added: "All communities divide themselves into the few and...and well-born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God ; and, however generally this maxim has been... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 710 pages
...in the minds of the many, that the truth gradually gains ground." Three sentences later he added : " All communities divide themselves into the few and...and well-born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God ; and, however generally this maxim has been... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 526 pages
...is said with us to be unattainable. If it was once formed, it would maintain itself. All comr nities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the others the mass of thy" people. The voice of the people is said to be the voice of God... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1863 - 548 pages
...is said with us to be unattainable. If it was once formed, it would maintain itself. AH commu nities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1871 - 704 pages
...many, that the truth (trtidnally gains ground." Three sentences later he added: "All communities Jivide themselves into the few and the many. The first are...and well-born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God ; and, however generally this maxim has been... | |
 | William Augustus Berkey - Greenbacks - 1878 - 616 pages
...individual security. It is said with us to be unattainable. If it was once formed it Would maintain itself. All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. * * Can a democratic assembly, •See page 54. • ' •... | |
 | John Wilford Overall - Constitutional history - 1892 - 206 pages
...operations. ... I believe the British government forms the best model the world ever produced. . . . All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. Give, therefore, to the first class a distinct, permanent... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1901 - 622 pages
...but in the confidential deliberations of that august body of patriots, he is reported as saying : " All communities divide themselves into the few and...and well-born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God ; and, however generally this maxim has been... | |
 | F. M. Fogg - Bimetallism - 1896 - 230 pages
...Hamilton said: "I believe the British government forms the best model the world ever produced. * * All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. Nothing but a permanent body (like House of Lords) can... | |
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All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed,... 
