 | United States. Office of Education - 1942 - 694 Seiten
...Constitution is likely to be well administered for a course of years and can only end in despotism as other forms have done before it when the people shall become so corrupt as to need despotic government, being Incapable of any other. — Benjamin Franklin (1787).... | |
 | Thomas W. Fletcher, Paula Gordon, Shirley W. Hentzell - 1979 - 78 Seiten
...[government] is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall...despotic Government, being incapable of any other." Benjamin Franklin, 1787 There can be no possibility of corruption where there is not an idea of integrity,... | |
 | Thomas Robbins - 560 Seiten
...years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. We see in those words the sentiments of an old republican, aware of the compromises contained in the... | |
 | Robert N. Bellah - 1992 - 223 Seiten
...years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other." 14 Can we not see in those words the sentiments of an old republican, aware of the compromises contained... | |
 | Robert N. Bellah - 1992 - 223 Seiten
...years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other."14 Can we not see in those words the sentiments of an old republican, aware of the compromises... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 Seiten
...that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall...despotic government, being incapable of any other. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, debates in the Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September... | |
 | Fred Douglas Young - 1995 - 244 Seiten
...that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall...to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.24 Some of Weaver 's sharpest barbs were aimed at what has come to be referred to simply as "the... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 Seiten
...years," it would "end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."69 "Only a virtuous people," he said in another place, "are capable of freedom. As nations become... | |
 | Dee Hock - 1999 - 366 Seiten
...if well administered. . . . [It] can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We are living on the knife's edge of one of those rare and momentous turning... | |
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I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end... 
