 | Francis Lieber - Political ethics - 1875 - 610 pages
...Leg. Angl., chap. xviii., note g, edit. of 1741.) This is very different from Pope's verses, — " For forms of government let fools contest ; That which is best administered is best," — a saying which, on account of its boldness and convenience, both for the ignorant and indolent... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Cooperation - 1875 - 444 pages
...political principles — not even in favour of liberty. His doctrine was that of the poet :— For modes of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best, a doctrine which has no other ideal than that of a benevolent despotism, and regards as idle or futile... | |
 | James Robinson Graves - Baptism - 1876 - 164 pages
...Heretofore, they have been satisfied with the government. They acted upon the saying of Pope — " For forms of government let fools contest; That which is best administered, is best." They perhaps, will be found changing their opinion, when they find it is not always "best administered."... | |
 | Michigan. Board of State Building Commissioners - Michigan - 1879 - 324 pages
...curse. You will remember perhaps the remark of Alexander Popo about forms of government. He says : "For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best." And there is a world of truth in this. "That which is best administered is best." It is the administration... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - 476 pages
...Scandal. Skilled by a touch to deepen scandal's tints By all the kind mendacity of hints. — BYRON. cc For forms of government let fools contest, That Which is best administered is best. For forms of faith let senseless bigots fight, He can't be wrong whose conduct's always right. —... | |
 | Michigan. Board of State Building Commissioners - Lansing (Mich.) - 1879 - 74 pages
...curse. You will remember perhaps the remark of Alexander Pope about forms of government. He says : "For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best." And there is a world of truth in this. "That which is best administered is best." It is the administration... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...the best calculated for the highest political development. There is a fallacy in Pope's couplet : * For forms of government let fools contest That which is best administered is best.' A government which depended for stability on the humours of those entrusted with it, would have few... | |
 | John Ruskin - Labor - 1883 - 234 pages
...wise ones of the most rational and keen-sighted of old English men of the world, than these : — " For forms of government let fools contest; That which is best administered is best" For, indeed, no form of government is of any use among bad men ; and any form will work iu the hands... | |
 | Joseph Rodes Buchanan - Psychometry (Parapsychology) - 1885 - 528 pages
...we shall have a political millennium — the country being ruled by the wisest and best. Pope says " For forms of government let fools contest That which is best administered is best." But the United States having an admlrable/<?r;« of government already, the able and wise administration... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1886 - 536 pages
...benevolent mind than a research after the best. " Pope flattered tyrants too much when he said : ' For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best.' Nothing can be more fallacious than this. But poets read history to collect flowers, not fruits ; they... | |
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