 | 1925 - 434 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...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... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - 1926 - 614 pages
...well, good men do better; for good laws may want (ie, lack) 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; qualities... | |
 | Charles A. Moore - 1978 - 432 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 nor suffer ill ones." Legalists, on the other hand, maintain that any government that depends in any way upon the existence... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pages
...better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones. It is true, good laws have some awe upon ill ministers, but that is where they have not power to escape... | |
 | Jean R. Soderlund - 1983 - 436 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 nor suffer ill ones. It is true, good laws have some awe upon ill ministers, but that is where they have not power to escape... | |
 | William McEnery Offutt - 1995 - 358 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 nor suffer 111 Ones. —William Penn, 1682 The waters of the Delaware River chart a zigzag course as they meander... | |
 | Jack D. Marietta, G. S. Rowe - 2006 - 380 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 nor suffer ill ones."8 For all his conviction that he could recruit desirable settlers for Pennsylvania, Penn was... | |
 | 1900 - 1298 pages
...men, and be abolished or invaded by 111 men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer 111 such mo ! they have not power to escape or abolish them, and the people are generally wise and good: but a loose... | |
 | 1833 - 438 pages
...want good men, j peace, which never had existence but in the rainbow and be abolished or evaded by ill men: but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones." The colours of their own beautiful fancy. The picture of the primitive society of Pennsylvania needs... | |
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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. 
