 | Tedd Adamovich - 2000 - 237 strani
...possibly happen here. "That's all I needed to know. That's all I wanted to know. Thomas Jefferson said, 'Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depository and to render even them safe their minds must be improved to a certain... | |
 | John Hood - 2001 - 334 strani
...a self-governing republic: 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 even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain... | |
 | Thomas G. West - 1997 - 244 strani
...Jefferson, is to make the people "the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty. . . . And to render even them safe their minds must be improved...not all that is necessary, though it be essentially necessary."26 All human beings have a right to be free. But the wrong habits and beliefs can make a... | |
 | W. Arden Clarke - 2001 - 383 strani
...Analysis of Church Government "Jefferson feared that an ignorant nation would be easy prey for tyrants. 'Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.' he wrote. "The people themselves are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 strani
...the State of Virginia, 1781 In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover,...themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. Query XIV, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions... | |
 | Gary Hart - 2002 - 305 strani
...incapable of self-government. "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers," Jefferson said. "The people themselves therefore are its only safe...And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved."132 The notion of tying popular education to the proper functioning and flourishing of the... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 strani
...Hamilton rejected Jefferson's principles that "the will of the majority should always prevail" and that "every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone." Men must be governed by their passions rather than their supposed virtue and common sense: "It will... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 strani
...necessarily prove insufficient. "In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover,...degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone" (Notes 198). The best surety and, in Jefferson's mind, only effective safeguard against the universal... | |
 | Iris C. Rotberg - 2004 - 450 strani
...new deal. Brisbane: Queensland Government. 16 United States: America's Orgy of Reform Peter Scbrag Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers...render even them safe, their minds must be improved. . . . —Thomas Jefferson (17-t3-1826) "No other people ever demanded so much of schools and of education... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 strani
...with one heart and one mind. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover...when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The peoLiberty . 69 pie themselves. therefore, are its only safe depositaries. And to render even them... | |
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