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" It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of men. These are what no constitution can give : they are the gifts of God ; and he alone knows whether we shall possess such gifts at the... "
The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 112
by Edmund Burke - 1812
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1813 - 600 pages
...call for remedies commensurate to enormous evils. It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and...time we stand in need of them. Constitutions furnish Ihe civil means of getting at the natural ; it is all that in this case they can do. But our constitution...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 676 pages
...call for remedies commensurate to enormous evils. It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of VOL. v. 11 men. These are what no constitution can give : they are the gifts of God ; and he alone...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...call for remedies commensurate to enormous evils. It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can robine, was ever nugatory, but ' now it is sunk into...the lowest contempt. The ' original establishment, lie alone knows, whether we shall possess such gifts at the time when we stand in need of them. Constitutions...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 660 pages
...call for remedies commensurate to enormous evils. It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and...knows, whether we shall possess such gifts at the time when we stand in need of them. Constitutions furnish the civil means of getting at the natural ; it...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...enormous evils. It is an ohvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must he defended hy er will he, nor ever can he, the least rational hope of making an impression on France hy Uono knows whether wt shall possess such gifts at the time we stand in need of them. Constitutions...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1861 - 568 pages
...truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by tlie wisdom and fortitude of y men. These are what no constitution can give : they...; it is all that in this case they can do. But our J constitution has more impediments than helps. Its excellencies, when they come to be put to this...
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The Wisdom of Burke: Extracts from His Speeches and Writings

Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...the fall thereof.— Obser. on Pres. State of Nation. It is an obvious truth that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and...knows whether we shall possess such gifts at the time when we stand in need of them.— Second Letter on Reg. Peace. STATE WITHOUT THE MEANS OF SOME CHANGE...
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The New Constitutions of Europe

Howard Lee McBain, Lindsay Rogers - Constitutions - 1922 - 638 pages
...written instruments of government are merely a first step, for, as Burke pointed out, constitutions "must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of men....possess such gifts at the time we stand in need of them."2 1Bryce, Modern Democracies, Vol. II, pp. 607-608. 2Letten on a Regicide Peace, IV. In a different...
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The Constitutional Review, Volume 7

Constitutional law - 1923 - 280 pages
...cannot be put into constitutions, but must come from God himself — virtue and wisdom. Constitutions "must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of men....such gifts at the time we stand in need of them." (Letters on a Regicide Peace, IV.) As the system stands, the people and Congress and the Bar have a...
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The Useful Cobbler: Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress

James Conniff - Political Science - 1994 - 384 pages
...the possibility of effective human action. He wrote, "it is an obvious truth that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of men;" and "miserable works have been defended by the constancy of the garrison. Weatherbeaten ships have...
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