 | Moorfield Storey, Marcial Primitivo Lichauco - Philippine American War, 1899-1902 - 1926 - 298 pages
...rights of men which is the soul of the American nation. Truly did Froude say, If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free...own constitution, the constitution itself will fall to pieces, through mere incompetence for its duties. This, then, is an appeal to reason,—if a Federal... | |
 | Moorfield Storey, Marcial Primitivo Lichauco - Philippine American War, 1899-1902 - 1926 - 298 pages
...rights of men which is the soul of the American nation. Truly did Froude say, If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free...own constitution, the constitution itself will fall to pieces, through mere incompetence for its duties. This, then, is an appeal to reason, — if a Federal... | |
 | Thomas A. Boylan, Tadhg Foley - Economics - 2003 - 384 pages
...in Mr. Froude's own historical writings. Take, for example, the following: "If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches it is this, that free...will fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties."24 I will ask the reader to observe for a moment the character of this generalisation. Mr.... | |
 | American essays - 1901 - 1048 pages
...conquered races, to whom she was unable or unwilling to extend her privileges. ... If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this : that free...in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." Whether Froude, writing in 1879, was right or wrong in his interpretation of Roman history is not here... | |
 | American essays - 1901 - 1122 pages
...conquered races, to whom she was unable or unwilling to extend her privileges. ... If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this : that free...in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." Whether Froude, writing in 1879, was right or wrong in his interpretation of Roman history is not here... | |
| |
If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free • nations cannot govern subject provinces. If they are unable or unwilling to admit their dependencies to share their own constitution, the constitution itself will fall in... 
