Therefore Governments and foreign financiers should not hesitate in giving your plans their most careful consideration and support, and come to your assistance in the realisation of your grand humanitarian project.
The governments cautiously took advantage of the national movement to strengthen their position.
No bishop joined it in Germany or in Austria, and few priests, though the governments were ready to protect them in the enjoyment of the privileges secured to Catholics, and to maintain them in the use of the temporalities.
Prussia had begun to mobilize in November; and Austria also soon realized that action must speedily be taken if the lesser German governments were not to be allowed to get out of hand.
This protest was the direct outcome of an instance of the tendency of the emperor to interfere in the affairs of the various governments of the Empire.
But the governments of Prussia and Austria were unaffected; and when the storm had died down Metternich was able, with the aid of the federal diet, to resume his task of holding "the Revolution" in check.
By the terms of the Final Act this diet had very wide powers for the development of the mutual relations of the governments in all matters of common interest.
Had the battle been fairly fought out between the governments and the people, the latter would still have triumphed; but the former had now, in the Frankfort diet, a mightier instrument than ever against freedom.
Taken together with those of the state constitutions, these documents outline the general structure of the federal and state governments and provide the rules and limits of power.
In civil law the sources recognized as authoritative are principally legislation - especially codifications in constitutions or statutes enacted by governments - and secondarily, custom.
When these are the only ones left, the governments have an easy job.
In extraordinary governments all impulsion must come from the center; it is from the convention that elections must issue.
It reduces these to the levying of taxes and the supervision of roads and canals; it purges them out through its agents; it even purges out the governments of municipalities and districts.
Unity of interest and of purpose unites peoples--compacts often unite governments in a conspiracy to plunder.
Not content with simply holding this opinion, the task these gentlemen set themselves was, to indoctrinate the Governments of the several countries in which they were located with the same views of the case.
Society might have well spared the interference of governments with weights and measures if they had been content to leave all commerce equally free.
But, in truth, the regulation of weights and measures is almost a solitary exception to the great principle which governments ought to practise, of not interfering, or interfering little, with commerce.
Poland has been partitioned, over and over again, by governments that knew her weakness; and she has been said to have fallen "without a crime.
Montesquieu, a writer in most respects of enlarged views, holds that it is beneath the dignity of governments to interfere with such trumpery things as the regulation of weights and measures.
I hope that future Governments will rectify the mistake of past years by utilizing to a greater extent the valuable aid of capable and sympathetic women in a branch of public work for which they are peculiarly fitted.
For example, if the governmentsof Europe had not withstood the notorious Attila, he would not have left a single living man.
Although after some time governments destroyed this union, the work of Christ was accomplished.
A Cause which all the governments and peoples of the world, with all their powers and armies, cannot promulgate and spread, one Holy Soul can promote without help or support!
For example, Christ, alone and solitary, upraised the standard of peace and righteousness, a work which all the victorious governments with all their hosts are unable to accomplish.
The point is this, that Christ united these nations but after a while governmentsbecame the cause of discord.
The actions of governments are necessarily expedients,--the wisest policy in view of all the circumstances.
By this decision, the rightfulness or the wrongfulness of the capture and condemnation of the "Exchange" was left to be determined by the twogovernments as a political question.
Most governmentsare based on expediency rather than abstract principles.
Congress, however, was helpless and the State governments were inactive.
You cannot settle the complicated relations ofgovernments by deductions.
One cannot consult documents contemporaneous with his life and not learn instantly that he was a very live fact of the most troublesome kind the governments of France and England ever had to accept.
The controversy--first between the governments of France and England, subsequently between the French and English historians--has eclipsed the real achievements of Radisson.
The state fixed governments at Montreal, Three Rivers, and Quebec; there towns arose.
Some degree of united action had been effected among the several and widely-different states; the local governments had learned how to raise and support armies, and to consider military movements.
This required the ratification of five governments in order to make it effective.
Subsequently the governmentsof Germany and France had shown especial consideration by conferring on the President the Order of the Red Eagle and of the Legion of Honor respectively.
Spain, the United States and Mexico did not enter into the agreement because those governments preferred to postpone the claims of their citizens until the industrial crisis was over and the financial conditions were improved.
Next to ourselves, they are evidently the most happy, the most wealthy, the most enlightened, and the most powerful Governments in the world.
Open your doors, and they will come in; the population of the Old World is full to overflowing; that population is ground, too, by the oppressions of the governments under which they live.
He applied unsuccessfully to thegovernments of Venice, Portugal, Genoa, France, England.
Even with the greatest force the Anglo-French Governments can muster the Germanic armies will outnumber them two to one, while the Austro-German artillery is in the proportion of five to one.
Minds otherwise constituted will be able to discriminate between the righteous following of a justifiable policy and the lapses of the colonialgovernments from high and Christian motives and righteous courses.
State governmentsalso have initiated surveys of an exploring nature for taxing and other public purposes (see pp.
The individuals, companies, andgovernments which use force to exploit resources in weaker countries are merely the agents in supplying the demand created by all of us.
The mineral situation of Europe is in such a state of chaos that the combined efforts of governments will be necessary for many years to bring order.
It is also to be noted that the commercial or financial control of the world's minerals, under the influence of the fostering and protective policies of certain governments discussed in Chapter XVIII, is at present in a state of flux.
Another considerable group of conservational practices is possible only to governments or other public agencies.
Governments have been coöperating in various ways in the liquidation of government stocks of minerals.
Combined efforts of governments seem hardly necessary as yet to accomplish this purpose.
Since the war all governments except that of the United States are taking an active part in these fields, both directly and in coöperation with private capital.
Whether these activities ofgovernments are economically desirable or not, they are the actual conditions, not theories.
The fact that there are conservational measures possible only to governments has been widely used as an argument for introducing government ownership or control.
The conferences were adjourned to be resumed in Washington in January, when it is hoped that the aspiration of both Governments for a mutually advantageous measure of reciprocity will be realized.
The Commission also had conferences with representative citizens, interested foreigners and the representatives of foreign governments in Monrovia.
The United States can not with good grace invite foreigngovernments to erect buildings and make expensive exhibits while itself refusing to participate.
After negotiations with the Governments and groups concerned an agreement was reached whereby American, British, French, and German nationals should participate upon equal terms in this important and useful undertaking.
The attitude of the Governments interested leads me to hope for a satisfactory settlement of this question as the ultimate outcome of the negotiations.
Those who have Americanism especially in charge have repudiated the doctrine that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," because it stood in the way of what they wanted to do.
Governments do the same to further their fiscal purposes.
Governments get their powers from the historical fact of their existence.
In 1776 it seemed to every Whig in America that it was a pure axiom to say that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
It was a severe task for Barneveld, and enough to overtax the energies of any statesman, to maintain his hold on two such slippery governmentsas both had become since the death of their great monarchs.
It needed but slender logic to reduce such a policy on his part to absurdity, but neither kings nor governments are apt to value themselves on their logic.
The result of this trifling pique between the two governments was great hindrance to commerce, but very often that which bears only upon the private interest of the people is lightly treated by the rulers.
To go to Venice, it was necessary to submit to a quarantine, which had been adhered to only because the two governments had fallen out.
Despite the jeopardy to our citizens and their property which naturally arises in such circumstances, we have, with the cooperation of the governments concerned, been able to meet all such instances without friction.
The only indebtedness of foreign governments to the United States now unsettled is that of Russia and Armenia.
During the past year the London naval pact was completed, approved by the Senate, and ratified by the governments concerned.
Our citizens and our local governments have given a magnificent display of unity and action, initiative and patriotism in solving a multitude of difficulties and in cooperating with the Federal Government.
The proposed plan for final settlement as suggested by the neutral governments is still under consideration.
The two governments have taken further steps to promote friendly relationships and so solve our differences.
It is the duty of the National Government to insist that both the local governments and the individual shall assume and bear these responsibilities as a fundamental of preserving the very basis of our freedom.
And yet all the erroneousness of the argument of those who consider that governments cannot give up the use of force till all people are capable of doing the same, could not be more clearly expressed than it is in that epigram.
It is just this flagrant contradiction between the peaceful professions and the warlike policy ofgovernments which all good citizens desire to put an end to, at any cost.
The greater number of loans raised by the governments of Europe were with a view to war.
But the learned gentlemen are unwilling to see that, and keep hoping to find a political combination, through which governments shall be induced to limit their powers themselves.
Without governments nations would be enslaved by their neighbors.
And the governments know this, and fear such incidents more than all the socialists, communists, and anarchists, and their plots and dynamite bombs.
And one consequence is that governments are induced to rest in narrow technicalities, and to be ruled by formal precedents, when the question ought to be decided on the broadest grounds of right.
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