 I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous.  Transactions of the National Prison Congress - Stran 181888Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1898 - 404 strani
...head; in other words, to the poorest and most ignorant part of society. I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization or both. In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1860 - 1124 strani
...written by him in 1857 to Air. Randall of New York :— " I have long been convinced that institution! purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both. In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous.... | |
 | 1861 - 600 strani
...make no apology for recalling it to our reader's recollection : — ' I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both. ' In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous.... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1861 - 254 strani
...ought to be intrusted to a majority of citizens, told by the head. I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both." I have not quoted the hostile opinions of these thoughtful men, to weaken your faith in the permanency... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1861 - 604 strani
...make no apology for recalling it to our reader's recollection : — ' I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both. ' In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous.... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1861 - 256 strani
...ought to be intrusted to a majority of citizens, told by the head. I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both." I have not quoted the hostile opinions of these thoughtful men, to weaken your faith in the permanency... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1871 - 276 strani
...; in other words, to the poorest and most ignorant part of society. I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous.... | |
 | 1877 - 974 strani
...; in other words, to the poorest and most ignorant part of society. I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous.... | |
 | 1878 - 926 strani
...monarchies who prophesy, plausibly enough, as Macauhy, in a recently published letter, has done,* that "institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both " — civilization, when, in times of severe distress, the poor, urged by demagogues to spoliation,... | |
 | 1878 - 1074 strani
...till North America has two hundred inhabitants to the square mile. I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. In Europe, where tho population ¡9 dense, tho effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous.... | |
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