 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - Peace - 1876 - 190 pages
...and the people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy or confusion." "Governments rather depend upon men, than men upon...cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. I know some say : Let us have... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 622 pages
...from the motion imparted to them ; they depend on men rather than men on government. Let men be good, the government cannot be bad ; if it be ill, they will cure it." Even with absolute power, an Antonine or an Alfred could not make bricks withont straw, nor the sword... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1919 - 418 pages
...Governments are made and moved by Men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore Governments rather depend on Men, than Men upon Governments. Let Men be good, and...it. But if Men be bad, let the Government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn." ' In his Frame of Government, in... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1878 - 624 pages
...from the motion imparted to them ; they depend on men rather than men on government. Let men be good, the government cannot be bad ; if it be ill, they will cure it." Even with absolute power, an Antonine or an Alfred could not make bricks without straw, nor the sword... | |
 | Pennsylvania - Courts - 1879 - 650 pages
...men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ru- Preface, ined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men,...it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil to their turn. I know some say, let us have good laws,... | |
 | Thomas Pym Cope - Pennsylvania - 1882 - 532 pages
...do well enough ; and story tells us that the best in ill ones can do nothing that is great and good. Wherefore, governments rather depend upon men than...it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. "That which makes a good constitution... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1883 - 660 pages
...from the motion imparted to them ; they depend on men rather than men on government. Let men be good, the government cannot be bad ; if it be ill, they will cure it." Even with absolute power, an Antonine or an Alfred could not make bricks without straw, nor the sword... | |
 | James Pyle Wickersham - Education - 1886 - 726 pages
...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...cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. 1 know some say, Let us have good... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1888 - 658 pages
...from the motion imparted to them ; they depend on men rather than men on government. Let men be good, the government cannot be bad ; if it be ill, they will cure it." Even with absolute power, an Antonine or an Alfred could not make bricks without straw, nor the sword... | |
 | Education - 1896 - 390 pages
...from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are mined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men...it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil to their turn.". Sections: "Second. That the freemen... | |
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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... 
