 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 strani
...manhood suffrage with popular education Jefferson was in the vanguard of philosophic radicalism : — "Every government degenerates when trusted to the...therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree. This indeed is not all that is necessary,... | |
 | William Cecil Pendleton - 1927 - 640 strani
...sought for and cultivated. *** In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover,...rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. And to render them even safe, their minds must be improved to a certain... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1942 - 494 strani
...restrained by an extension of that right to such numbers as would bid defiance to the means of corruption. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers...themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories." One glance at war-torn Europe today would convince the most cynical of the truth of Jefferson's words.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1942 - 496 strani
...restrained by an extension of that right to such numbers as would bid defiance to the means of corruption. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers...themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories." One glance at war-torn Europe today would convince the most cynical of the truth of Jefferson's words.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 strani
...knowing it, to defeat its views. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover...them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.7 I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge... | |
 | John Zvesper - 1977 - 258 strani
...quoted above. Jefferson shared Paine's disapproval of imposing governments. Furthermore he believed that 'Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.' He wanted to see unadornedly governing aristoi and mildly governed people living in peaceful coexistence... | |
 | 1984 - 1500 strani
...necessity of making the government accountable to the governed. For, to quote Jefferson once more, "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone." Democracy and Minority Rights It is so true that democracy guarantees human rights that it requires... | |
 | Landon E. Beyer, Michael W. Apple - 1988 - 380 strani
...schooling in a democratic society. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover,...them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.1 Jefferson's ideas have been criticized for their elitism and limited view of the public. Yet... | |
 | Betsy Erkkila - 1989 - 369 strani
...and cultivated." It is this program of mass education that is the safeguard of republican government: "Every government degenerates when trusted to the...their minds must be improved to a certain degree" (Notes, p. 148). Whitman shared Jefferson's faith in education as a means of safeguarding republican... | |
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In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people... 
