Pious Phrases in Politics: An Examination of Some Popular Catchwords, Their Misuse and MeaningP.S. King & Son, Limited, 1919 - 85 strani |
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Pious Phrases in Politics: An Examination of Some Popular Catchwords, Their ... John Wynne Jeudwine Predogled ni na voljo - 2009 |
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Stran 5 - My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times.
Stran 18 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth ; that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Stran 5 - You are not his most humble servant. You may say, ' These are bad times ; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times.' You don't mind the times. You tell a man, ' I am sorry you had such ba'd weather the last day of your journey, and were so much wet.
Stran 27 - They have realized and exemplified its beneficent operation by a career unexampled in point of national greatness or individual felicity. They believe it to be for the healing of all nations, and that civilization must either advance or retrograde accordingly as its supremacy is extended or curtailed. Imbued with these sentiments, the people of the United States might not impossibly be wrought up to an active propaganda in favor of a cause so highly valued both for themselves and for mankind.
Stran 27 - Europe as a whole is monarchical, and, with the single important exception of the Republic of France, is committed to the monarchical principle. America, on the other hand, is devoted to the exactly opposite principle — to the idea that every people has an inalienable right of self-government...
Stran 45 - Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Stran 27 - The people of the United States have a vital interest in the cause of popular self-government.
Stran 34 - Sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is riot governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Stran 84 - . . . These essays are very well worth study, and the main contention that the root evil of our financial policy has been the extravagant payments made by the State for all the services required by the war cannot be gainsaid. .... INFLATION By J. SHIELD NICHOLSON, MA, Sc.D., LL.D., Professor of Political Economy in the University of Edinburgh. 3s.
Stran 23 - There has hardly ever before been a community in which the weak have been pushed so pitilessly to the wall, in which those who have succeeded have so uniformly been the strong, and in which in so short a time there has arisen so great an inequality of private fortune and domestic luxury.