 | English Orators - 1899 - 616 pages
...numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with us. First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of...My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 468 pages
...numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with us. First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of...My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed you are without... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1899 - 202 pages
...so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with us. 20 First, Sir, permit me to observe that the use of force...My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force ; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with us. First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force...next objection- is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1899 - 782 pages
...and order of Burke's plan, or relied for your knowledge of that plan on the analysis of another. (2) First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force...My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory If you do not succeed, you are without... | |
 | Cynthia Dubin Edelberg - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 232 pages
...alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subding again: and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered." 17 What Britain wanted was trade, which could not exist if British America was filled with rebels "perpetually... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...have with me two gods. Persuasion and Compulsion. Themistocles (c. 514-c. 449 BC) Athenian statesman The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connexion with us. First, Sir, permit me to observe, that the use of...My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without... | |
 | Robert W. Jackman - Political Science - 1993 - 212 pages
.... . . there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms. — Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Permit me to observe that the use of force alone is...My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Speech, 29 Sept. 1 862. "Iron and blood" and 'blood and iron" were favorite expressions of Bismarck's. 2 The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue...not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. EDMUND BURKE (1 729-97), Anglo-Irish philosopher, statesman. "Speech on Conciliation with America,"... | |
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First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. 
