 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1895 - 156 pages
...for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management, than of force ; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument,...for ' preserving a people so numerous, so 'active, so"grOwlng. so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate con- 20 nection with us. First, Sir,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 138 pages
...so numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connexion with us. First, Sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force 20 alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1896 - 106 pages
...for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management, than of force ; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble,...is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is riot governed, which is perpetually... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Americana - 1896 - 270 pages
...attempt to force such a people would be a course of idle folly. Force, he declared, would not only be an odious " but a feeble instrument, for preserving...this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with " England. " First, Sir," he cried, " permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary.... | |
 | Edmund Burke, Albert Stanburrough Cook - Great Britain - 1896 - 256 pages
...active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with us. . 33. First, Sir, permit me to observe that the use of force...is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing JSu. again ; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1896 - 248 pages
...'p^udenTm^naggme^nt than of force ; consider/ ^ ing force not as an 'odious, but a feeble instrument, for 15 / jy 'preserving a people so numerous, so active, so growing,...in a profitable and subordinate connection with us. 33. First, Sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Americana - 1896 - 264 pages
...spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with " England. " First, Sir," he cried, " permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed which is perpetually... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1896 - 242 pages
...acTive; so'growin so spiriteojfeS^nil,Vn ^p*Jontable and subordinate connection with us. 38r First, Sii^ permit me to -observe that the use of force alone is bu-t temporary. It may subdue for a mo- % 9 ment, .but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again ; and a nation is not governed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 238 pages
...prudent management than of force, — ' considering force not as an odious, but a feeble, instrument / v for preserving a people so numerous, so active, so...is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed which is perpetually... | |
 | HAMMOND LAMONT - 1897 - 236 pages
...for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force, — considering force not as an odious, but a feeble,...Sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone 5 is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again... | |
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First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. 
