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" For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best... "
Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention ... - Page 394
by Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - 1853
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The Works of Alexander Hamilton, Volume 9

Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1886 - 652 pages
...or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says : " For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best," — yet we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency...
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The Works of John Ruskin: Time and tide, by Weare and Tyne. "Unto this last ...

John Ruskin - 1887 - 782 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 in the hands...
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You and I: Or, Living Thoughts for Our Moral, Intellectual and Physical ...

Conduct of life - 1887 - 764 pages
...repelled them; trace the Christian world — it centres in the heart of Him whose name it bears. " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best." We care more for the officer than for the law; we believe that personality is the final factor in the...
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Household Guest, Volume 2

1888 - 548 pages
...enlist the interest of the teachers in the enforcement of our Scientific Temperance Education laws. For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best. The personality of teachers is the final factor in education, and we have yet to gain the hearty good-will...
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PRINCIPLES OF THE ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIETY, GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY

VAN BUREN DENSLOW - 1888 - 826 pages
...comparatively perfect liberty of changing the government by ballot may come to exist. Pope's couplet, " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best," to express the American view, should be so modified as to read: " For forms of government the wise...
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, Being ...

James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1888 - 676 pages
...or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says : " For forms of government let fools contest — That which is best administered is best, " — yet we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency...
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Signal Lights: A Library of Guiding Thoughts

Christian ethics - 1888 - 760 pages
...repelled them; trace the Christian world — it centres in the heart of Him whose name it bears. " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best." We care more for the officer than for the law; we believe that personality is the final factor in the...
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Principles of the Economic Philosophy of Society, Government, and Industry ...

Van Buren Denslow - Economics - 1888 - 854 pages
...comparatively perfect liberty of changing the government by ballot may come to exist. Pope's couplet. " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is beat," to express the American view, should be so modified as to read: " For forms of government the...
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The Juridical Review, Volume 2

Electronic journals - 1890 - 470 pages
...the most important half, if we accept the partial truth contained in Pope's familiar lines : — " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best." The other half is administrative law ; the law and customs which regulate the actual working of government...
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Mornings in Florence & Time & Tide

John Ruskin - Art - 1889 - 266 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." 1 With at last the natural consequences of cowardice, — nitroglycerine and fireballs ! Let the upper...
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