... there are particular moments in public affairs, when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards... Publications - Nebraska State Historical Society - Page 10by Nebraska State Historical Society - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Morton White - 1989 - 286 pages
...governments, and actually will in all free governments ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs, when...men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be... | |
 | Edward Millican
...governments, and actually will in all free governments ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs, when...men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn." The Senate can "suspend the blow meditated by... | |
 | James S. Fishkin - 1991 - 147 pages
...governments and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when...men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be... | |
 | Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1993 - 335 pages
...governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers," noted Madison in Federalist number 63, "so there are particular moments in public affairs when...men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn." The likelihood that the public will be misled... | |
 | Benjamin I. Page, Robert Y. Shapiro - 2010 - 506 pages
...sometimes be necessary as a defense to the people against their own temporary errors and delusions. . . . (T)here are particular moments in public affairs when...men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. (Hamilton, Madison, and Jay 1961 [1787-1788], p.... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 581 pages
...exhausts and murders itself." 61 Publius (either Hamilton or Madison) warned in the Federalist #63: "There are particular moments in public affairs when...or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful representations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the... | |
 | George F. Will - 2010 - 272 pages
...against their own temporary errors and delusions." There will, he said, be occasions when people will be "stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by artful misrepresentations of interested men." Then the people may demand measures they will later regret.... | |
 | Gyeorgos C. Hatonn - 1994 - 208 pages
...governments, and actually will in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when...men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be... | |
 | William T. Bianco - 1994 - 216 pages
...Federalist No. 63, James Madison argued that, ". . . there are particular moments in public affairs where the people, stimulated by some irregular passion,...men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn." Madison's concerns were shared by opponents of... | |
 | Ortwin Renn, Thomas Webler, Peter Wiedemann, Peter M. Wiedemann - 1995 - 381 pages
...for the need for a Senate - a relatively small body of citizens with relatively long tenure. He said: "[T]here are particular moments in public affairs...men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be... | |
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