 | Henry Wikoff - 1855 - 488 páginas
...demands, but that these might be as fully met under one form as another. In short, as Pope wrote — " For forms of Government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best. " My prison essay was duly forwarded by Dr. P- • to the Questore, and thence found its way to Turin.... | |
 | E. J. Hamill - 1856 - 390 páginas
...voice now. Heretofore, they have been satisfied with the government. They have acted upon the saying of Pope— ' For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered, is best.' They perhaps will be found changing their opinion, when they find that it is not always best administered.... | |
 | Maine State Agricultural Society - 1853 - 884 páginas
...as citizens of a Republic. The sentiment of an old poet has been often quoted with approbation : " For forms of government, let fools contest That which is best administered is best." There is certainly but very little poetry in the lines, and I think less of truth than poetry. Indeed,... | |
 | 1859 - 108 páginas
...thieves and ruffians to rob and assault, not the greater freedom of the honest and peaceable citizen. " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best.1' Lest it should be thought that I have exaggerated the condition of New York, I here insert... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1860 - 296 páginas
...towards freedom will always be slow amongst a people who have not a great love for personal liberty. Jt has often been remarked how weak and inconclusive...itself to my mind under this strange image. I see a female figure bearing along a vase filled with liquid fire. If she moves steadily, however swiftly,... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - 1863 - 770 páginas
...good or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says, " For forms of Government let fools contest — "That which is best administered is best — " yet we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good Government is its aptitude and tendency... | |
 | 1864 - 786 páginas
...good or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says, " For forms of Government let fools contest — " That which is best administered is best — " yet we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good Government is its aptitude and tendency... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1864 - 772 páginas
...good or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says, " For forms of Government let fools contest — " That which is best administered is best — " yet we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good Government is its aptitude and tendency... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1864 - 850 páginas
...or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet, who says: " For forms of government, let fools contest — That which is best administered, is best," — yet we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good government is, its aptitude and tendency... | |
 | 1865 - 696 páginas
...good or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says, " For forms of Government let fools contest — " That which is best administered is best — " yet we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good Government is its aptitude and tendency... | |
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For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best... 
