 | Pennsylvania - 1879 - 638 pages
...laws do well, good men do better ; for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or invaded by ill men ; but good men will never want good laws,...have some awe upon ill ministers, but that is where they have not power to escape or abolish them, and the people are generally wise and good : but a loose... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1882 - 608 pages
...abolished or evaded by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor auf It. fer ill ones. "Pis true, good laws have some awe upon ill ministers,...loose and depraved people (which is to the question ) love laws and an administration like themselves. That, therefore, which makes a good constitution... | |
 | James Pyle Wickersham - 1886 - 720 pages
...good laws do well, good men do better; for good laws want good men, and may be abolished or evaded by ill men ; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones. * * * * , * * * ****** That, therefore, which makes a good constitution must keep it, namely, men of... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1894 - 382 pages
...good laws do well, good men do better; for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or invaded by ill men ; but good men will never want good laws nor suffer ill ones." 15. Penn said, further, that " the great end of all government " is " to support power in reverence... | |
 | Cadwallader Colden - 1902 - 412 pages
...good Laws do well, good Men do better : For good Laws may want good Men, and be abolished or evaded by ill Men ; but good Men will never want good Laws,...have some awe upon ill Ministers, but that is where they have no Power to escape or abolish them, and the People are generally wise and good : But a loose... | |
 | Cadwallader Colden - 1902 - 408 pages
...better : For good Laws may want good Men, and be abolished or evaded by ill Men ; but good Men 297 will never want good Laws, nor suffer ill ones. 'Tis...have some awe upon ill Ministers, but that is where they have no Power to escape or abolish them, and the People are generally wise and good : But a loose... | |
 | Howard Malcolm Jenkins - 1903 - 658 pages
...good laws do well, good men do better; for good laws may want1 good men, and be abolished or evaded by ill men; but good men will never want good laws nor suffer ill ones. . . That, therefore, which makes a good constitution must keep it, viz., men of wisdom and virtue,... | |
 | 1904 - 612 pages
...said : " Though good laws do well, good men do better ; for good laws may be abolished or evaded by ill men ; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones." During Penn's absences those who were evilly disposed toward him took every advantage, and even his... | |
 | Frederick Robertson Jones - 1904 - 618 pages
...he said: "Though good laws do well, good men do better; for good laws may be abolished or evaded by ill men ; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones." During Penn's absences those who were evilly disposed toward him took every advantage, and even his... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1905 - 492 pages
...that though good laws do well, good men do better, for good laws may want good men and be abolished by ill men ; but good men will never want good laws nor suffer ill ones." The truth and logic of these words cannot be escaped. The character of a government depends upon the... | |
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But let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better ; for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded by ill men ; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones. 
