 | Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 596 sayfa
...completest winning of democracy there is nothing yet won,—except emptiness, and the free chance to win ! Democracy is, by the nature of it, a selfcancelling business; and gives in the long-run a net result of zero. Where no government is wanted, save that of the parish-constable, as... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 392 sayfa
...this statement is simply untrue. " Democracy," he says, " is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business, and gives, in the long run, a net result of zero." Because the law of gravitation is uncompromising, things are not, therefore, crushed in a wild rush... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 360 sayfa
...it," this statement is simply untrue. "Democracy," he says, "is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business, and gives, in the long run, a net result of zero." Because the law of gravitation is uncompromising, things are not, therefore, crushed in a wild rush... | |
 | BLISS PERRY - 1915 - 328 sayfa
...completest winning of democracy there is nothing yet won,—except emptiness, and the free chance to win! Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling...business; and gives in the long run a net result of zero. Where no government is wanted, save that of the parish-constable, as in America with its boundless... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1915 - 302 sayfa
...except emptiness, and the free chance to win ! Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self -cancelling business; and gives in the long run a net result of zero. Where no government is wanted, save that of the parish-constable, as in America with its boundless... | |
 | Moisei Ostrogorski - 1902 - 712 sayfa
...for all that goes wrong with them ; they have a fixed idea of suffrage. . . . HouseVOL. I — Г hold Suffrage, Ballot Question, ' open ' or not : not things...produced by Carlyle's denunciations was immense. The English soul, with its religious fibre and its reserve of repressed emotion, is never insensible to... | |
 | 1927 - 816 sayfa
...united minority acting against a divided majority. Perhaps this is what Carlyle meant when he said, "Democracy is by the nature of it a self-cancelling...and gives in the long run a net result of zero." "A true democracy," said that passionate democrat, Jean Jacques, "has never existed, and never will exist;... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1971 - 832 sayfa
...and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike." Much later, Carlyle cynically said : "Democracy is, by the nature of it, a selfcancelling...business; and gives in the long run a net result of zero." From a dollar standpoint, a shift in revenue from the federal government to the states and localities... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1971 - 466 sayfa
...and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike." Much later, Carlyle cynically said : "Democracy is, by the nature of it, a selfcancelling...; and gives in the long run a net result of zero." racy is also "based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities In ordinary people."... | |
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Where no government is wanted, save that of the parish-constable, as in America with its boundless soil, every man being able to find work and recompense for himself, democracy may subsist; not elsewhere, except briefly, as a swift transition toward something... 
