If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?
First US President
If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?
First US President
Statement during the Constitutional Convention, emphasizing integrity.
1787
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