 | William Bennett Munro - 1919 - 680 Seiten
...after all, reaches only a little way. "Constitute government how you please," Edmund Burke once wrote, "the greater part of it must depend upon the exercise...the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. . . . Without them your commonwealth is no better than a scheme on paper, and not a living, active,... | |
 | George Cockburn Henderson - 1920 - 32 Seiten
...how you please," says Burke, "infinitely the greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of the powers which are left at large to the prudence and...ministers of state. Eve.n all the use and potency of laws depends upon them. Without them your commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper, not a... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1921 - 668 Seiten
...much must be left whether we will or no to the wisdom and discretion of ruled and rulers. Burke said: The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute government...of State. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them your Commonwealth ia no better than a scheme on paper, and not a living,... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 238 Seiten
...his equals or superiors ; by a knowledge of their temper, and by a judicious management of it. ... The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute Government...of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them, your Commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper ; and not... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby, Lindsay Rogers - 1921 - 568 Seiten
...discussion of the relations between the central and local authorities in France, England, and Germany. 1" The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute government...of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them your Commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper; and not a... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby, Lindsay Rogers - 1921 - 598 Seiten
...discussion of the relations between the central and local authorities in France, England, and Germany. 1"The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute government...of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them your Commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper; and not a... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1921 - 646 Seiten
...White House during the summer of 1919. See 66th Cong., 1st sess., Sen. Doc. 106, p. 499 et seq. 89 " Constitute government how you please, infinitely the...of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them your Commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper; and not a... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1921 - 666 Seiten
...White House during the summer of 1919. See 66th Cong., ist sess., Sen. Doc. 106, p. 499 et seq. 80 " Constitute government how you please, infinitely the...of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them your Commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper; and not a... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 234 Seiten
...his equals or superiors ; by a knowledge of their temper, and by a judicious management of it. ... The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute Government...large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of sta^e. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them, your Commonwealth... | |
 | 1921 - 874 Seiten
...ultimate questions which China has to face to-day. We cannot be too often reminded of Burke's saying: "Constitute government how you please, infinitely...the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state." This is a truth which all political philosophers, I take it, will acknowledge, no matter what theories... | |
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The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute government how you please^ infinitely the greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of the powers which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. 
