 | William Dudley Foulke - 1903 - 220 pages
...Governments like clocks go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made to move by men, so by them are they ruined too. Wherefore governments...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." The institutions established... | |
 | Howard Malcolm Jenkins - 1903 - 654 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." These words are just as applicable to-day... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1904 - 396 pages
...the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. . . . 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 own turn." Whatever the form, there... | |
 | Charles McLean Andrews - 1904 - 414 pages
...the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. . . . 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 own turn." Whatever the form, there... | |
 | Charles McLean Andrews - 1904 - 402 pages
...and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, * or confusion. . . . Let men be good and the govern/ ment cannot be bad ; if it be ill they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their own turn." Whatever the form, there... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1905 - 488 pages
...rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good and the government cannot be bad; for if it be ill they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil to their turn. ... I know some say let us have good... | |
 | 1906 - 584 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." The great end of all government he... | |
 | 1907 - 636 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...bad ; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be Dad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil to their turn." The... | |
 | Peter Taylor Forsyth - 1908 - 94 pages
...Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them. Governments rather depend on men than men on governments. Let men be good and the government cannot...it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn. Though good laws do well, good men... | |
 | 1908 - 582 pages
...depend upon men than men upon governments.- Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad, for if it be ill they will cure it ; but if men be bad and government be good, they will warp and spoil it to their turn." When Penn landed at Chester there... | |
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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... 
