 | Cadwallader Colden - Canada - 1755 - 276 pages
...Governments rather depen </ upon Men, than Men upon Governments. Let Men le good, and the Government cant ba bad ; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if Men be bad, let the Government be never fo good, they will endeavour to warp and fpoil it to their Turn. I know fome fay, Let us have good... | |
 | James Murray - United States - 1780 - 626 pages
...Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, fo by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments...cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be commonly called Narraganfet bay, where the faid river falleth into the fea, and on the north by the... | |
 | Robert Proud - Delaware - 1797 - 522 pages
...governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let government be never fo good, they will endeavour to warp and ? 'to fpoil it to their turn."—" That,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 552 pages
...governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad: if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men...know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter fur .the men -that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Great Britain - 1813 - 520 pages
...Like clocks, they go from the motion which men give them. Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad. If it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the Government be ever so good they will endeavour to warp and and spoil it to their turn. Some were of opinion that... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1813 - 514 pages
...they go from the motion which men give them. Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad. Jf it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the Government be ever so good they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn. Some were of opinion that if they... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Great Britain - 1813 - 562 pages
...rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be had. If it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be badi let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn. *... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 1112 pages
...governments rather .depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men he gcod, and th* government cannot be bad. If it be ill, they will cure it. But if men...government be never so good, they will endeavour, to wnrp and spoil it to their turn. " I know some say, I,et us bavé good laws, and no matter for thé... | |
 | Charities - 1814 - 402 pages
...virtuous. It is also a proposition which is of mixed import, and highly calculated to mislead, that " if men be bad, let the government be never so good,...will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn." It is a fundamental proposition in politics, that with individual exceptions, which are not to be counted... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1818 - 396 pages
...men, than men on . made and moved by men) so governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad ; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government he never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn. I know some say let us have... | |
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore, governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good and the government cannot... 
