| Brander Matthews - 1906 - 380 Seiten
...a principle of growth." "Whenever we improve, it is right to leave room for a further improvement. A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. In what we improve we are never wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete." "What... | |
| Charles Evans Hughes - 1908 - 348 Seiten
...the well-established institutions of the country. But he would also ^ ", recognizer tvilh Dutke that "a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." The principle of correction is as essential as the principle of conservation. But changes are not to... | |
| Jacob Gould Schurman - 1908 - 350 Seiten
...and the well-established institutions of the country. But he would also recognize with Burke that " a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." The principle of correction is as essential as the principle of conservation. But changes are not to... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1909 - 472 Seiten
...political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order out of the first elements of society. A state without the means of some change is without...conservation. Without such means it might even risk the loss-of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve. The two principles... | |
| Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 592 Seiten
...election. or a pledge. That is one of the very conditions which demand a change. Says Edmund Burke: A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. The whole thing may be summed up in this — the principal has discharged the agent because the agent... | |
| Keith Feiling - 1913 - 180 Seiten
...new needs.1 I am a Tory, but I am very curious to hear from each of you why you are : the first 1 " A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." — Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution. reason for being a Tory that you give to yourself... | |
| William Malcolm Macgregor - 1914 - 448 Seiten
...the mind and made dead reckoning illusory. Burke has given us few weightier maxims than this, that "a State without the means of some change is without the means of conservation " ; but how is the State or the Church to become aware of its need of change, unless it... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1915 - 1154 Seiten
...which I will move the consideration of the proposal section by section. . "A state," says Burke, " without the means of some change is without the means of its own conservation," and your Committee, in considering the problem submitted to it, has sought merely... | |
| Charles Evans Hughes - 1916 - 466 Seiten
...Constitution and the well-established institutions of the country. But he would also recognize with Burke that "a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." The principle of correction is as essential as the principle of conservation. But changes are not to... | |
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