 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 472 pages
...political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order out of the first elements of society. A state without the means of some change is without...conservation. Without such means it might even risk the loss-of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve. The two principles... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 592 pages
...election. or a pledge. That is one of the very conditions which demand a change. Says Edmund Burke: A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. The whole thing may be summed up in this — the principal has discharged the agent because the agent... | |
 | Keith Feiling - 1913 - 180 pages
...new needs.1 I am a Tory, but I am very curious to hear from each of you why you are : the first 1 " A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." — Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution. reason for being a Tory that you give to yourself... | |
 | William Malcolm Macgregor - 1914 - 448 pages
...the mind and made dead reckoning illusory. Burke has given us few weightier maxims than this, that "a State without the means of some change is without the means of conservation " ; but how is the State or the Church to become aware of its need of change, unless it... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1915 - 1154 pages
...which I will move the consideration of the proposal section by section. . "A state," says Burke, " without the means of some change is without the means of its own conservation," and your Committee, in considering the problem submitted to it, has sought merely... | |
 | Charles Evans Hughes - 1916 - 466 pages
...Constitution and the well-established institutions of the country. But he would also recognize with Burke that "a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." The principle of correction is as essential as the principle of conservation. But changes are not to... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1916 - 1144 pages
...after which I will move the consideration of the proposal section by section. "A state," says Burke, " without the means of some change is without the means of its own conservation," and your Committee, in considering the problem submitted to it, has sought merely... | |
 | James Henry Cousins - 1919 - 198 pages
...of .the next country town." Burke strove earnestly for order and stability, but he recognised that " a State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." In the human units that were the embodiments of both principles he saw the barrier of inertia, and... | |
 | Frederick Arthur Simpson - 1923 - 458 pages
...CHAPTER II THE GOBDIAK KNOT Bonum .-minium babe : unus tibi nodus, sed Herculaneus restat. SENECA. A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. EDMUND BURKE. position to which Louis Napoleon awoke on the morning of December 21, 1848, was one which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 538 pages
...society. TI I • 'Vt . ^.j; 's':i' • ' ;' i - • ..; • li •' !.' ': i,i : _ I..! 170 EDMUND BURKE A state without the means of some change is without...constitution which it wished the most religiously to_pres»Fve. The two principles of conservation and correction operated strongly at the two critical... | |
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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. 
