 | James Murray - United States - 1780 - 626 pages
...motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, fo by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than...upon governments. Let men be good and the government can't be bad ; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be commonly called... | |
 | Robert Proud - Delaware - 1797 - 522 pages
...which men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, fq by them are they ruined too: wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than...Let men be good and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill they will cure it: but if men be bad, let the government be never fo good, they will endeavour... | |
 | John Marshall - 1805 - 544 pages
...motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than...Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will... | |
 | John Marshall - Generals - 1804 - 582 pages
...motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than...Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad ; if it be ill, they will curse it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Great Britain - 1813 - 562 pages
...motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than...governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be had. If it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be badi let the government be never so good, they... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 1112 pages
...rn-nion men give them ,- and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they nre ruined too. Wherefore governments rather .depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men he gcod, and th* government cannot be bad. If it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let... | |
 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...the people are a party to those laws. More than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. Whsrefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon...governments. Let men be good and the government cannot be bad ; if it be ill, they will cure it ; but if men be bad, be the government ever so good, they will endeavour... | |
 | Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1825 - 400 pages
...motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than...Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; jf it be ill they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Bibliography - 1826 - 452 pages
...motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than...governments. Let men be good and the government cannot be bad ; if it be ill they will cure it. But if men he bad let the government be ever so good they will endeavour... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...which we give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them are they ruined too; wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than...Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad : if it is ill, they will cure it ; but if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will... | |
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore, governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good and the government cannot... 
