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. The Problem of the Unemployed: Anonymous ... - Sayfa 209Henry Franklin Ring tarafından - 1905 - 277 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| 1865 - 836 sayfa
...perish ; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish. You may think that your country enjoys an exemption from these evils. I will frankly own to yon that I am of a different opinion. Your fate I believe to be certain, though it is deferred by a... | |
| 1898 - 404 sayfa
...majority of citizens told by the head; in other words, to the poorest and most ignorant part of society. I have long been convinced that institutions purely...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 sayfa
...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.... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1861 - 254 sayfa
...the supreme authority of a State ought to be intrusted to a majority of citizens, told by the head. I have long been convinced that institutions purely...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... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1861 - 256 sayfa
...the supreme authority of a State ought to be intrusted to a majority of citizens, told by the head. I have long been convinced that institutions purely...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 sayfa
...language so striking that we shall make no apology for recalling it to our reader's recollection : — ' I have long been convinced that institutions purely...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 sayfa
...language so striking that we shall make no apology for recalling it to our reader's recollection : — ' I have long been convinced that institutions purely...later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both. ' In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous.... | |
| James Abram Garfield - 1871 - 276 sayfa
...majority of citizens told by the head ; in other words, to the poorest and most ignorant part of society. I have long been convinced that institutions purely...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 sayfa
...majority of citizens told by the head ; in other words, to the poorest and most ignorant part of society. I have long been convinced that institutions purely...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 sayfa
...transatlantic 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,... | |
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