 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1909 - 478 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...it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn. I know some say, let us have good... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Slavery - 1909 - 484 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...it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn. I know some say, let us have good... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Charters - 1909 - 718 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...will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government Ix; never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. I know some say, let us have... | |
 | William H. Loyd, William Henry Lloyd - Courts - 1910 - 312 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...it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil to their turn." 1 Under the system of government first... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Municipal government - 1911 - 358 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...it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. "I know some say, let us have good... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh - Des Moines (Iowa) - 1912 - 56 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...it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. "I know some say, let us have good... | |
 | William Jay Gaynor - New York (N.Y.) - 1913 - 330 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...it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn." 150 I hope my letter will help you... | |
 | Social sciences - 1913 - 816 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...it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. I know some say, let us have good laws,... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - Pennsylvania - 1913 - 344 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...be bad. If it be ill, they will cure it. But if men are bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn."... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 568 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...it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. I know some say, let us have good laws,... | |
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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... 
