 | Peter Marber - Business & Economics - 2003 - 294 pages
...to spin their own virtuous cycles of prosperity. Wealth and Government: Voting with Our Pocketbooks Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) The forces that create prosperity cannot exist without a supportive environment,... | |
 | English language - 2004 - 436 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything,men want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...right that these wants should be provided for by this wis dom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want,out of civil society,of a sufficient re straint... | |
 | W. Wesley McDonald - Political Science - 2004 - 260 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom."37 What, then, are the real rights of men, according to Burke? They are derived from long usage... | |
 | John B. Morrall - Philosophy - 2004 - 162 pages
...the state in his political thought loomed larger, his conception grew of its delicacy and complexity. 'Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants', he wrote. 46 The organization of a state and " Burke to Captain Thomas Mercer, 26 February 1790, Correspondence,... | |
 | Joseph Pollard - Bible - 2004 - 164 pages
...Saturday Review, 8/25/1962). On the other hand, the British statesman and writer Edmund Burke wrote, "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants" ("Reflection on The French Revolution"). And the late Yale historians Will and Ariel Durant in their... | |
 | R. N. Vyas - Historiography - 2005 - 284 pages
...has probably always existed in the past. The reason is in the words of Edmund Burke "Government is contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants....these wants should be provided for by this wisdom." Thomas Paine seems to be right when he declares that government is 'a necessary evil'. We should not... | |
 | David Dary - History - 2005 - 438 pages
...traveling 2,000 miles, a journey that would not be forgotten. CHAPTER SEVEN SELF-RULE AND MORE EMIGRANTS Government is a contrivance of human •wisdom to provide for human -wants. Edmund Burke UNTIL FORTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Ewing Young died in 1841 the settlers in the Willamette Valley... | |
 | John P. Diggins - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 536 pages
...institution that can stand in the way of the people's urge to want everything is government itself. "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom." Burke argued that a government is based upon consent of the people, its power derived from a power... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 590 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...a right that these wants should be provided for by ibis wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 590 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...a right that these wants should be provided for by ibis wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint... | |
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. 
