 | Edmund Burke - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1800 - 76 pages
...us in our neceffities is not in the power of Government. It would be a vain prefumption in ftatefmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them,...Government to prevent much evil ; it can do very little pofitive good in this, or perhaps in any thing elfe. It is not only fo of the ftate and ftatefman,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 432 pages
...us in our neceflities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain prefumption in ftatefmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them,...government to prevent much evil; it can do very little pofitive good in this, or perhaps in any thing elfe. ft is not only fo of the ftate and ftatefman,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...in odious power, ended always, I may say without an exception., in contemptible imbecility. * * * * It is in the power of government to prevent much evil...positive good in this, or perhaps in any thing else. * * * * As to government, if I might recommend a prudent caution to them, — it would be, to innovate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...in odious power, ended always, I may say without an exception, in contemptible imbecility. * * * * It is in the power of government to prevent much evil...positive good in this, or perhaps in any thing else. * * * * As to government, if I might recommend a prudent caution to them, — it would be, to innovate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 536 pages
...regulate our tempers. To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can...else. It is not only so of the state and statesman, but of all the classes and descriptions of the rich — they are the pensioners of the poor, and are... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 540 pages
...in our necessities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen ro think they can do it. The people maintain them, and...positive good in this, or perhaps in any thing else. Ic is not only so of the state and statesman, but of all the classes and descriptions of the rich —... | |
 | John Bristed - Debts, Public - 1811 - 554 pages
...pp. 367—309. " To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can...else. It is not only so of the state and statesman, but of all the classes and descriptions of the rich; they are the pensioners of the poor, and are maintained... | |
 | John Bristed - Debts, Public - 1811 - 556 pages
...pp. 367—369. " To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can...else. It is not only so of the state and statesman, but of all the classes and descriptions of the rich; they are the pensioners of the poor, and are maintained... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 458 pages
...regulate our tempers. To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can...very little positive good in this, or perhaps in any thiqg else. It is not only so of the state and statesman, but of all the classes and descriptions of... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...in odious power, ended always, I may say without an exception, in contemptible imbecility. * * * » It is in the power of government to prevent much evil...positive good in this, or perhaps in any thing else. * * * * As to government, if I might recommend a prudent caution to them, — it would be, to innovate... | |
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To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. 
