 First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered, My next objection...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 47de Edmund Burke - 1801Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 pages
...alone is but temporary ; it may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. My next object is its uncertainty; terror is not always the effect of force ; and an armament is not a victory.... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 pages
...alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing farther. Fo \ , 2. My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force ; and an armament... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...alone, is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing teful ; and the straggles of 2. My next objection is its uncertainly. Terror is not always the effect of force ; and an armament... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 pages
...alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually...force; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 344 pages
...alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again ; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually...; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource ; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing,... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 354 pages
...alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again ; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually...; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource ; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing,... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - 1884 - 360 pages
...alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again ; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually...; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource ; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing,... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 346 pages
...alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again ; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually...; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource ; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing,... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 340 pages
...alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again ; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. I My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror \ is not always the effect of force ; and an arma- I... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. — Speeclt on Condl. with America. POPULAR DISCONTENTS TOO OFTEN ARISE FROM MlSGOVERNMENT. I am not... | |
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