 | Thomas Roscoe - 1838 - 48 pages
...of " things as they are." Then might we congratulate ourselves on the truth of the poet's maxim : " For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." And another result of this admirable reform in our old system would be, the popular happiness enjoyed... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Colonies - 1841 - 408 pages
...justice," and generally of the " administration of a government." For example, in the well known verses of Pope ; " For forms of government, let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best." So the heads of the executive government are often called " the administration," and " ministers of... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Colonies - 1841 - 418 pages
...justice," and generally of the " administration of a government." For example, in the well known verses of Pope; " For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best." So the heads of the executive government are often called " the administration," and " ministers of... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 218 pages
...of a high order. Although Pope's well known lines are not absolutely true, they contain truth : — For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best. And it is obvious, that a form of government which from its very nature is administered by inferior... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 pages
...that happiness may be best secured. We arc not carried away by names, but exclaim, with the poet, " For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered, — is best." We believe that a people may be prosperous and happy under an enlightened and liberal government, whether... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 560 pages
...or such a form of government ; and not a few have subscribed to the well known jingling nonsense, " For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best." The " practical " men, so called, have been the favorite politicians, and, in perfect keeping with... | |
 | John Hall - Elocution - 1845 - 354 pages
...words the utterance of which is difficult to one who has not habituated himself to use distinctness. For forms of government let fools contest : Whate'er is best administered is best. His sons stood still around him. Through distant worlds, and regions of the dead. Tempests and fire.... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1845 - 824 pages
...? To no political institution does the saying of the poet apply with so much force as to this : и For forms of government let fools contest : Whate'er is best administered is beat." For under every modification of Poor Laws, much must be left to localities and to individuals.... | |
 | 1848 - 626 pages
...— " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right: For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." In the first couplet, what Pope says is, that a life, which is irreproachable on a human scale of appreciation,... | |
 | 318 pages
...attempting to establish, not the truth or justice of Pope's words; but their great vogue and currency — ' For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ;' His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."... | |
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For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right... 
