Our constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many. But our laws secure equal justice for all in their private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honours talent in every branch of achievement, not... Our Social Heritage - Page 156by Graham Wallas - 1921 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alfred Zimmern - 1911 - 470 pages
...barbarian city called Rome to learn about us. Our '"frnstitntinp '-< named a democcaf)'', h'Tans" il_Jc in the hands not of the few but of the many. But our...private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honours talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence... | |
| Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern - 1911 - 478 pages
...themselves. As the Funeral Speech says : ' We call our constitution a democracy because its working is in the hands not of the few but of the many,' or, to quote the paradox at the close of Herodotus's eulogy of democracy, ' in the many all things... | |
| Sir Richard Winn Livingstone - 1916 - 488 pages
...desert of scholasticism, but into fields of beauty and delight. They opened Thucydides and read : " Our constitution is named a democracy because it is...private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honours talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence... | |
| Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1917 - 456 pages
...First of all, then, in Athens тróXíc and тгоХ/тт?ç stand nearest in meaning. " The state is in the hands not of the few, but of the many/' Lydia, Egypt, Persia, and the barbarian tribes of the North might have kings or chieftains — The... | |
| 1920 - 370 pages
...of other peoples. It is true that our government is called a democracy, because its admi iUt ration is in the hands, not of the few, but of the many; yet while as regards the law all men are on an equality for the srttltment of th-ir private disputes,... | |
| Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pages
...solemnity, and expedient too that the whole gathering of citizens and strangers should listen to them. . . . "Our constitution is named a democracy because it...talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence alone. And as we give free play to all in our public... | |
| Larue Van Hook - 1923 - 388 pages
...government is not copied from those of our neighbors; we are an example to them rather than they to us. Our constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many. Our laws secure equal justice for all in their private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and... | |
| Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1924 - 584 pages
...deftness; corrupting the fine sense of social obligation which alone made possible what Athenians "called democracy, because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many" — for the "many" were Athenians all. And it is their city, of which the fragments are precious to... | |
| R. W. LIVINGSTONE - 1924 - 476 pages
...government is not copied from those of our neighbours : 1 we are an example to them rather than they to us. Our constitution is named a democracy, because it...private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honours talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence... | |
| Wilbur Cortez Abbott - 1925 - 272 pages
...of other peoples. It is true that our government is called a democracy, because its administration is in the hands not of the few but of the many; yet while, as regards the law, all men are on an equality for the settlement of their private disputes,... | |
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