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Example sentences for "good government"

  • Order, in any other sense, stands only for a part of the prerequisites of good government, not for its idea and essence.

  • But, though metaphysically defensible, this definition of the criterion of good government is not appropriate, because, though it contains the whole of the truth, it recalls only a part.

  • The influence of defects of intelligence in obstructing all the elements of good government requires no illustration.

  • Energy in government is essential to that security against external and internal danger, and to that prompt and salutary execution of the laws which enter into the very definition of good government.

  • The passion for law, the instinct of good government, which were to make his reign so memorable in our history, had declared themselves from the first.

  • So far from either giving elements of civilization or good government to the other, conqueror and conquered reaped only degradation from the ceaseless conflict.

  • The arguments that have hitherto been employed against the hereditary system have been chiefly founded upon the absurdity of it, and its incompetency to the purpose of good government.

  • Every government that does not act on the principle of a Republic, or in other words, that does not make the res-publica its whole and sole object, is not a good government.

  • If we assume that the object of government is the preservation of the persons and property of men, then we must hold that, wherever that object is attained, there the principle of good government exists.

  • And, if that sense and that spirit of which we speak be diffused through a society, then, even without a representative assembly, that society will enjoy many of the blessings of good government.

  • If it cannot, we seem to be forced upon the extraordinary conclusion that good government is impossible.

  • The latent principle of good government ought to be tracked, as it appears to us, in the same manner in which Lord Bacon proposed to track the principle of Heat.

  • A good government is a blessing, a bad government is a judgment; but the one as much as the other is ordained of God, and is to be obeyed not only for fear but also for conscience sake.

  • Good government it is that shuts out the reign of anarchy, and secures the dominion of equity and goodness.

  • All parties alike had to suffer the evils, or enjoy the advantages of bad or good government.

  • Good government it is that restrains the elements of tyranny and oppression, and introduces liberty into the world.

  • Without any theoretical hostility to the co-ordinate powers of the state, it seemed to him a perfectly reasonable and natural course to trample either baronage or Church under foot to gain his end of good government.

  • Extravagant and unauthorized as their expression of it may appear, they expressed the right of a nation to good government.

  • Are they not equally interested in good government, and are they not equally capable of expressing through a vote their wish in relation to public affairs?

  • Are not women as much interested in good government as men?

  • The good home is the unit of good government.

  • I have said a thousand times that the home is the unit of good government.

  • The family is the unit of good government; anything that tends to destroy the family is immoral.

  • In the interest of good government we are one; we all believe that the Government should be so administered that all the people shall share equally in its benefits; that there shall be no favored class.

  • We cannot love it too much; we cannot be too careful that all our influence is on the side of good government and of American interests.

  • Under a good government it will be a disgrace to him if he remain in poverty and low estate; under a bad one, it would be equally disgraceful to him to hold riches and honors.

  • In my belief the friends of Deioces were the first to speak: 'As things are, it is impossible to live in the land; let us choose some one to be king, and thus the land will obtain good government.

  • The definition of the word "good" is difficult, but the definition of "good government" is as easy as A.

  • Funds for education on a large scale are also unobtainable until there is good government.


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