 | Jon Mee - History - 2005 - 342 pages
...of the Constitution and the Church, neither of which ought lightly to be tampered with by reformers: Society requires not only that the passions of individuals...but that even in the mass and body, as well as in individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their... | |
 | Dennis C. Mueller - Business & Economics - 2003 - 796 pages
...(Italics in original) David Hume 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. (Italics in original) Edmund Burke 2.1 Public goods and prisoners' dilemmas Probably the most important... | |
 | Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 284 pages
...But since "government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," among which is "the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions," men cannot have everything. It is a prerequisite for society that "the inclinations of men should frequently... | |
 | Steven P. Sondrup, Virgil Nemoianu, Gerald Gillespie - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 500 pages
...thing they want every thing. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided...passions. Society requires not only that the passions of the individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body as well as in the individuals,... | |
 | English language - 2004 - 436 pages
...everything,men want everything. 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 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
...everything they want everything. 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."37 What, then, are the real rights of men, according to Burke? They are derived from long usage... | |
 | Peter Viereck - Political Science - 200 pages
...everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. . . . This can only be done by a power out of themselves: and not, in the exercise of its function,... | |
 | R. N. Vyas - Historiography - 2005 - 284 pages
...in the words of Edmund Burke "Government is contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that 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... | |
 | John P. Diggins - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 536 pages
...everything is government itself. "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." Burke argued that a government is based upon consent of the people, its power derived from a power... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 590 pages
...everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have 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. 
