 | British Information Services - 1944 - 772 pages
...enough. "Let men be good," he wrote, "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." Those are wise words, and it follows that if justice... | |
 | 1905 - 950 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." — From the address of PresidentLucy M. Salmon before... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 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... | |
 | Jean R. Soderlund - 1983 - 436 pages
...men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government can't 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... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 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. WILLIAM PENN, in his Preface to the First Frame of Government [constitution] for Pennsylvania, which... | |
 | Patrick Joyce - 1994 - 260 pages
...let men be good and the government cannot be bad ... But if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn. The great end of all government is to support power in 58 Travis Mills, I, p. 17. 59 E. Isichei, Victorian... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1999 - 756 pages
...men upon governments. Lei 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. William Peon'" The impeachment process cannot properly... | |
 | Jack D. Marietta, G. S. Rowe - 2006 - 380 pages
...guarantee a just society. He also had to attract men and women of good will and enlightened principles. "I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them," he wrote in the preface of the Frame of Government, "But let them consider, that though good laws do... | |
 | Arthur O. Roberts - 2006 - 218 pages
...Quaker colonist wrote, "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." Penn thought monarchy, aristocracy and democracy (rule... | |
 | 1900 - 1298 pages
...men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; If it be ill, they will cure g ! to their turn. I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them:... | |
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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... 
