 That government is best which governs not at all; " and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes,...  Tolstoy and His Problems - Stran 323avtor: Aylmer Maude - 1901 - 332 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 strani
...at all;" and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments...inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standj ing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought... | |
 | Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 360 strani
...at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient ; but most...and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow, — one who may be known by the development of his organ... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - 1927 - 532 strani
...at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments...usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice. . . . We should be... | |
 | Alan Gilbert - 1990 - 532 strani
...Thoreau prefigured the subsequent Marxian critique of the American oligarchy's conquest of Mexico: "The objections which have been brought against a...standing army is only an arm of the standing government. . . . Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 strani
...sloe les," set. 1 8. Themistocles was alleging that his son was the most powerful man in Greece. 48 m us. SAMUEL BUTLER (1835-1902). English HENRY DAVID THOREAU (181 7-62), US philosopher, author. naturalist. Leller, 31 July 1849, to Ellen... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 strani
...at all;" and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments...usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Civil Disobedience, first paragraph, Walden and Civil Disobedience, ed. Owen Thomas,... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 522 strani
...have. Government is at bert but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governmenls are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have...and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought againsl a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1996 - 236 strani
...Government" (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 357, Houghton Mifflin (1906). Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments...usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. "Civil Disobedience," originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849), in The Writings... | |
 | Peter Moore, Tyler - 1999 - 638 strani
...of the individual to be responsible for his intellectual and moral integrity." Government [he wrote] is at best but an expedient; but most governments...at last be brought against a standing government. . . . After all, the practical reason why ... a majority are permitted ... to rule is not because they... | |
 | John Ryder - 1999 - 374 strani
...necessary temporarily, it is nevertheless more likely that government will act unjustly than for the good: "The objections which have been brought against a...be brought against a standing government. . . . The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally... | |
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