 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1901 - 692 pages
...Governments might have an appearance and even the reality of pacific intention, their action was constantly liable to be superseded by the violent and vehement operations of mere ignorance. And the moral was that we must remain on our guard, that we must make it certain, or as certain as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1901 - 676 pages
...Governments might have an appearance and even the reality of pacific intention, their action was constantly liable to be superseded by the violent and vehement operations of mere ignorance. And the moral was that we must remain on our guard, that we must make it certain, or as certain as... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Gilbert Butler - Conservatism - 1914 - 184 pages
...before he died — " Though governments may have an appearance and even a reality of pacific intent, their action is always liable to be superseded by...violent and vehement operations of mere ignorance." It is perhaps permissible to dwell upon these utterances just because it is impos sible to realise... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - Fiction - 1920 - 300 pages
...has always marked it. Though governments may have an appearance and even a reality of pacific intent, their action is always liable to be superseded by...violent and vehement operations of mere ignorance.' The United States are no exception to this rule. They have extended their dominion by much the same... | |
 | Keith M. Wilson, Keith Malcolm Wilson - History - 1996 - 312 pages
...distinctly gaining ground in power'; the actions of governments were 'always liable to be superceded by the violent and vehement operations of mere ignorance....its powers to the less educated and less enlightened classes'.84 He once said, 'It is very hard to have to conduct a great public department dealing with... | |
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Though governments may have an appearance and even a reality of pacific intent, their action is always liable to be superseded by the violent and vehement operations of mere ignorance. 