 The rich, the well-born, and the able acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass and placed...  Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 540redigeeritud poolt - 1795Full view - About this book
 | John Adams - 1797 - 448 lehte
...corrupt the legiflature as neceflarily as ruft corrupts iron, or as arfenic poifons the human body ; and when the legiflature is corrupted the people are...foon be too much for fimple honefty and plain fenfe, ia a houfe of reprefentatives. The moft illuftrious of them muft therefore be feparated from the mafs,... | |
 | John Wood - 1802 - 522 lehte
...national expence. Mr. Adams urges as an argument in favor of the establishment of a Senate, " that the rich, the well-born and the able, acquire an influence among the people that would soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense in a House of Representatives. The most illustrious... | |
 | John Wood - 1846 - 404 lehte
...national expense. Mr. Adams urges as an argument in favour of the establishment of a senate, " that the rich, the well-born, and the able acquire an influence among the people that would soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense in a house of representatives. The most illustrious... | |
 | John Wood - 1846 - 412 lehte
...national expense. Mr. Adams urges as an argument in favour of the establishment of a senate, " that the rich, the well-born, and the able • acquire an influence among the people that would soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense in a house of representatives. The most illustrious... | |
 | John Adams - 1851 - 666 lehte
...necessarily as rust corrupts iron, or as arsenic poisons the human body ; and when the legislature is corrupted, the people are undone. The rich, the...able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1920 - 598 lehte
...the Originals for Alexander Biddle, Series A. (Philadelphia, 1892), p. 37. 1 John Adams's words are: "The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people, that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 lehte
...Pennsylvania, June 2, 1927.— Hand, The Spirit of Liberty, ed. Irving Dilliard, p. 26 (1959). Congress 259 The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 lehte
...as necessarily as rust corrupts iron, or as arsenic poisons the human body; and when the legislature is corrupted, the people are undone. The rich, the...able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious... | |
 | Lance Banning - 1995 - 566 lehte
...quotation is from the Defence, in Adams, Works of John Adams, 4: 579. See, further: "The rich, die well-born, and the able acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense. The most illustrious of them must, therefore,... | |
 | Patrick Sauer - 2000 - 454 lehte
...model for many other states across the country and still hasn't been fundamentally altered. Prez Says "The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious... | |
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