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" ... throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves, had they been in a situation to do it. "
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson - Page 509
by Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 343

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1952 - 1030 pages
...must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized, what we know they would have done for themselves had they been in a situation to do it." 10 The Writings of Thomas Jefferson 407, 411. 6Selective Service Act of 1948, § 18, 62 Stat. 625,...
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States ..., Volume 2

George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...mu«t ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized, what we know they would have done for themselves, had they been in a situation to do it." He assimulatcs the case to that of a guardian who exceeds his authority to make an advantageous purchase...
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The Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States ..., Volume 1

United States. President - 1846 - 766 pages
...must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized, what we know they would have done for themselves, had they been in a situation to do it. But we shall not be disavowed by the nation, and their act of indemnity will confirm and not weaken...
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The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke, Volume 1

Hugh A. Garland - 1851 - 486 pages
...must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country, for doing for them, unauthorized, what we know they would have done for themselves, had they been iu a situation to do it. But we shall not be disavowed by the nation, and their act of indemnity will...
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The Statesman's Manual: The Addresses and Messages of the ..., Volume 1

United States. President - 1854 - 616 pages
...must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized, what we know they would have done for themselves, had they been in a situation to do it. But we shall not be disavowed by the nation, and their act of indemnity will confirm and not weaken...
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The National History of the United States: From the Period of the ..., Volume 2

Benson John Lossing - 1855 - 714 pages
...must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized, what we know they would have done for themselves, had they been in a situation to do it. But we shall not be disavowed by the nation, and their act of indemnity will confirm and not weaken...
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From the administration of Washington to that of Madison

William Henry Bartlett - 1856 - 758 pages
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3

Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 760 pages
...servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves had they been in a situation to do it. It ia the case of a guardian, investing the money of his ward in purchasing an important adjacent territory...
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Speeches of Hon. William D. Kelley: Replies of the Hon. William D. Kelley to ...

William Darrah Kelley - 1864 - 92 pages
...servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves,...adjacent territory ; and saying to him, when of age, kl did this for your good ; I pretend to no right to bind you ; you may disavow me, and I must get...
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