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" My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation... "
The treasury of British eloquence, compiled by R. Cochrane - Page 202
edited by - 1877
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English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray

Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 pages
...nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you dp not succeed, you are without resource ; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing,...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...all. 284 Shakespeare : Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2. AUTHORITY — see Judges, Office, Old Age, Submission. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness;...as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. 285 Burke : Speech. Conciliation with America. March 22, 1775. He who is firmly seated in authority...
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Speeches on the American War: And Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol

Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 pages
...governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not 25 always the effect of force ; and an armament is not...conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no furthur hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but...
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Two Speeches on Conciliation with America: And Two Letters on Irish Questions

Edmund Burke - 1892 - 294 pages
...next o'bjection is its uncertainty. Terror is riot always the effect of force, and an armament is riot a victory. " If you do not succeed, you are without...as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. -» ' ; '7A' 'further, objection to force is, that you impair Sie object by your very endeavours to...
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 pages
...nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament...as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavours to preserve it....
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Conciliation with the Colonies

Edmund Burke - 1894 - 120 pages
...nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. 25 My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament...further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and 30 authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished...
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Orations and Arguments by English and American Statesmen

Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 408 pages
...nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. 25 My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament...further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and 30 authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished...
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Conciliation with the Colonies

Edmund Burke - 1894 - 126 pages
...failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and 30 authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they...as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it....
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Orations and Arguments by English and American Statesmen

Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 392 pages
...failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and so authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they...as alms by an. impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it....
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Conciliation with the American Colonies

Edmund Burke - 1895 - 104 pages
...the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. My next objection is its uncertainly. Terror is not...as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it....
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