In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people... The Writings of Thomas Jefferson - Página 254por Thomas Jefferson - 1894Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Winston Smith - 2004 - 122 páginas
...mind controls the future. Totally Tubular Butterfly 2002 "Every government degenerates when tmsted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe repositories. " M COMPANY PICNIC - Thomas Jefferson, 1 781 "Go on, my f/ear Americans, whip your horses... | |
| Waller R. Newell - 2009 - 308 páginas
...about past history to unmask these wolves in sheep's clothing before they succeed in their designs. "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone," Jefferson concludes. "The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render... | |
| Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - 2005 - 238 páginas
...more willing than most of his compatriots to trust in popular over elite opinion. He declared that "every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The 13Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1996), p. 54. "Hofstadter,... | |
| Noretta Koertge - 2005 - 256 páginas
...democracies is hardly new; in introducing his education bill, US President Thomas Jefferson wrote that "every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone" (in Hirsch 1996, 18). In this context, journalist Jonathan Rauch (1993) has provided a useful classification... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 2005 - 148 páginas
...is no delegating a trust by halves. To Alexander Donald, Philadelphia, November 25, 1790 Democracy Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers...themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782 It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but... | |
| George Z. F. Bereday, Joseph A. Lauwerys - 2005 - 522 páginas
...individual's. " Every government degenerates," Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Notes on Virginia in 1785, " when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are therefore its only depositaries. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to... | |
| Matthew Clarke - 2007 - 138 páginas
...runs contrary to the intent of education as expressed by Dewey, Freire, and even Thomas Jefferson: Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers...render even them safe, their minds must be improved (Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia. 1782. in Leicester-Ford, 1893) The question that the World Bank's... | |
| Jack Buckley, Mark Schneider - 2007 - 366 páginas
...wrote, "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. And to render even...their minds must be improved to a certain degree" (1853, 157). More recently but in the same vein, Wolf and Macedo observe: Political communities have... | |
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