 | 1916 - 892 pages
...upon governments. Let men be good, and the government can not 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. That therefore which makes a good constitution, must keep... | |
 | Andrew J. Palm, Henry Randall Waite - 1896 - 700 pages
...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." It is equally important to correct wrong ideas of the organization... | |
 | Middle States Council for the Social Studies (U.S.) - 1904 - 66 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." Prof. Charles H. Haskins, of Harvard University, then... | |
 | Friends General Conference (U.S.). General Conference - 1902 - 374 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 so good they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn." The frame of government was followed by a code of laws,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson, Irwin Scofield Guernsey - 1922 - 736 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... 
