 | James Pyle Wickersham - 1886 - 726 páginas
...than this is tyranny, oligarchy or confusion. * * * * * Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved...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 - 1888 - 658 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1896 - 390 páginas
...civil government that shall serve all places alike. * * * Governments, like clocks, go 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 than men upon governments. Let men be good,... | |
 | Fred Morrow Fling, Howard Walter Caldwell - 1897 - 364 páginas
...civil government that shall serve all places alike. * * * Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved...bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil to their turn." Sections: "Second. That the freemen of the province shall,... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless - 1898 - 312 páginas
...subject with him to induce the right sort of men to emigrate in large numbers. As he truly said, " Let men be good and the government cannot be bad....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."* It is therefore probable that... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless - 1898 - 314 páginas
...subject with him to induce the right sort of men to emigrate in large numbers. As he truly said, " Let men be good and the government cannot be bad....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."* It is therefore probable that... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1898 - 654 páginas
...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 Antouine or an Alfred could not make bricks without straw, nor the sword... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1898 - 654 páginas
...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... | |
 | Albert Sidney Bolles - 1899 - 618 páginas
...religious liberty. Would the experiment succeed? "Governments, like clocks," said Penn, "go from the motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them are they ruined too." Penn knew that good government depended far more on good men than on the wisest... | |
 | Pennsylvania Society of New York - 1912 - 232 páginas
...law is only crystallized public opinion. "Governments, like clocks," said Penn, "go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by men they are ruined too." "This is the praise of William Penn," says Bancroft, "that in an age * *... | |
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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. 
