 | 1800 - 572 pagina’s
...recommend the particular interference of Government by compulsory acts and regulations : observing that, ' to provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of Government,' and that ' ail compulsory equalization* pull down what is above, but never raise whaI ia below.' So... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 76 pagina’s
...one to guide our judgment; the other to regulate our tempers. To provide for us in our neceffities is not in the power of Government. It would be a vain prefumption in ftatefmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 432 pagina’s
...one to guide our judgment; the other to regulate our tempers. To provide for us in our neceflities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain prefumption in ftatefmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pagina’s
...in odious power, ended always, I may say without an exception, in contemptible imbecility. * * * * It is in the power of government to prevent much evil...positive good in this, or perhaps in any thing else. * * * * As to government, if I might recommend a prudent caution to them, — it would be, to innovate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pagina’s
...in odious power, ended always, I may say without an exception., in contemptible imbecility. * * * * It is in the power of government to prevent much evil...positive good in this, or perhaps in any thing else. * * * * As to government, if I might recommend a prudent caution to them, — it would be, to innovate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 540 pagina’s
...the next is timely coercion : — the one to guide our judgment ; the other to regulate our tempers. To provide for us in our necessities is not in the...government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen ro think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of government... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1815 - 458 pagina’s
...the next is timely coercion :— the one to guide our judgment ; the other to regulate our tempers. To provide for us in our necessities is not in the...very little positive good in this, or perhaps in any thiqg else. It is not only so of the state and statesman, but of all the classes and descriptions of... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pagina’s
...in odious power, ended always, I may say without an exception, in contemptible imbecility. * * * » It is in the power of government to prevent much evil...positive good in this, or perhaps in any thing else. * * * * As to government, if I might recommend a prudent caution to them, — it would be, to innovate... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 832 pagina’s
...provide for ui in our necessities la not in the power of Government. It would be a vain pre. sumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is not only so of the state and statesmen, but of all the clase« and descriptions ¡of the rich. They... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 662 pagina’s
...the next is timely coercion : — the one to guide our judgment; the other to regulate our tempers. all other panegyrick. Their hatred is a judgment in...prison of Louis the Sixteenth, and the last but one the power of government to prevent much evil ; it can do very little positive good in this, or perhaps... | |
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To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of *' government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of government to prevent much evil ;... 
