 | Howard Malcolm Jenkins - 1903 - 706 pages
...men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad: if it be ill, they will cure 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 as they were when... | |
 | 1906 - 584 pages
...men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad ; if it be ill they will cure 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 declared to be " to... | |
 | Peter Taylor Forsyth - 1908 - 94 pages
...than men on governments. Let men be good and the government cannot be bad. If it be ill they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never...will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn. Though good laws do well, good men do better. For good laws may lack good men and be abolished or invaded... | |
 | William H. Loyd, William Henry Lloyd - 1910 - 310 pages
...men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil to their turn."1 Under the system of government first established by Penn... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1911 - 358 pages
...men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad: if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. "I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter... | |
 | 1913 - 816 pages
...men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter... | |
 | Hugh Francis Russell-Smith - 1914 - 246 pages
...men give them ; and, as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. ... If men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp it and spoil it to their turn." " I know," he continued, " some say, let us have good laws, and no... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 568 pages
...men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter... | |
 | 1919 - 412 pages
...Men upon Governments. Let Men be good, and the Government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if Men be bad, let the Government be never...will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn." 1 In his Frame of Government, in The Laws Agreed upon in England, in his Code enacted at Chester, known... | |
 | William Henry Hudson, Irwin Scofield Guernsey - 1922 - 778 pages
...be good, and the government cannot be bad ; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it in their turn." Hence the great end of government is "to support power in reverence with the people,... | |
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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... 
