 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 2003 - 642 sider
...current when it serves, / Or lose our ventures." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 1v, sc. 3, II. 218-24. as they pass, and they who preside in either, should...we heretofore suffered from the want of secrecy and dispatch, that the Constitution would have been inexcusably defective if no attention had been paid... | |
 | Robert A. Strong - 2005 - 286 sider
...secrets in the conduct of foreign affairs had been a serious defect in the Articles of Confederation. "So often and so essentially have we heretofore suffered from the want of secrecy and dispatch, that the Constitution would have been inexcusably defective, if no attention had been paid... | |
 | 632 sider
...can inform us that there frequently are occasions when days, nay, even when hours, are precious. ... So often and so essentially have we heretofore suffered from the want of secrecy and dispatch that the Constitution would have been inexcusably defective if no attention had been paid... | |
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So often and so essentially have we heretofore suffered from the want of secrecy and. dispatch that the Constitution would have been inexcusably defective if no attention had been paid to those objects. 
