 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 208 pages
...are not so frequently u&ed now as they formerly were; as — Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best. 80. The word as is frequently used with the force of a relative pronoun, especially when it follows... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 pages
...blest, 300 Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king. For forms of government let fools contest, — Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, — 305 His can't be wrong whose life is in the right... | |
 | Z. A. Pelczynski - Philosophy - 1984 - 346 pages
...the most quoted English tags in the Prussian political writings of the post-war period was Pope's : ' For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best'. Cf. T. Wilhelm, Die englische Verfassung und der vormdrzliche Liberalismus (Stuttgart, 1928). 7 'Uber... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - Fiction - 1987 - 1168 pages
...if well administered] Alluding to Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle III, 11. 303-4: "For Forms of Government let fools contest; / Whate'er is best administered is best." 5.1-3 Then the Motion . . . accordingly.] Though the speech failed in its purpose of gaining the signatures... | |
 | A. Boxhoorn, Menno Spiering - Political Science - 1988 - 228 pages
...choose led him on a downward path towards moral corruption. Carter, whose favourite lines are Pope's 'For forms of government let fools contest,/ Whate'er is best administered is best' (p. 324), finds he has ministered to 'good' as easily as to 'evil' and has been close to becoming a... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. William Beveridge (1879-1963) British economist For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.... | |
 | Peter Harris - Political Science - 1990 - 224 pages
...is the saviour of the state. Perhaps the most famous quotation on the subject comes from Alexander Pope. 'For forms of government let fools contest; whate'er is best administered is best!' By contrast, early communist writers also concluded that administration was a simple matter which could... | |
 | Immanuel Kant - History - 1991 - 332 pages
...having at last, after many years of experience, become convinced of the truth of Pope's famous saying: 'For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best.'7 If this means that the best administered government is the best administered, he has cracked... | |
 | Stephen Toulmin, Stephen Edelston Toulmin - History - 1992 - 244 pages
...no longer appear worth all that effort. According to Alexander Pope, "practice" is all that counts: 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. (It... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...one comfort still must rise. 'Tis this, — Though man's a fool, yet God is wise. (Fr. Epistle II) 83 For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best: (Fr. Epistle III) 84 What's fame? A fancied life in others' breath, (Fr. Epistle IV) 85 An honest man's... | |
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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... 
