 | Gilbert Geis - Abortion - 1972 - 284 pages
...approved industries. This position is in part summarized by Edmund Burke with the following view : Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned ... a sufficient restraint upon their passions. ... In this sense, the restraint on man, as well as... | |
 | Gilbert Geis - Abortion - 1972 - 276 pages
...approved industries. This position is in part summarized by Edmund Burke with the following view : Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned ... a sufficient restraint upon their passions. ... In this sense, the restraint on man, as well as... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1981 - 602 pages
...rule of law. I quote again from Burke to delineate something which I think Lefever's ideas reflect. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...human wants. Men have a right that these wants should he provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to he reckoned the want, ont of a civil society,... | |
 | Michael Walzer - Political Science - 2008 - 366 pages
...Perhaps Burke came closest to describing the fundamental right that is at stake here when he wrote: "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom." 28 It only has to be said that the wisdom in question is the wisdom not of a ruling class, as Burke... | |
 | Michael Walzer - Political Science - 2008 - 366 pages
...Perhaps Burke came closest to describing the fundamental right that is at stake here when he wrote: "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom."28 It only has to be said that the wisdom in question is the wisdom not of a ruling class,... | |
 | Government publications - 1986 - 120 pages
...JOE. Few have served with greater distinction; few will be missed more than JOE. Edmund Burke said: "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." Thanks to JOE ADDABBO and his wisdom and his dedication and his service, there are fewer wants in this... | |
 | Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...democratic."2 Das Problem, das Burke damit lösen will, hat er in den Reflections so ausgedrückt: "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom."3 Sich mit Veränderungen auseinanderzusetzen, ist für den Staatsmann unausweichlich, doch... | |
 | A. J. Ayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 210 pages
...of government, what did he suppose this title to be? The two sensible answers that he gives are that 'Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants, ^ and that 'all just governments owe their birth' to and 'justify their continuance' on 'principles... | |
 | Stephen Charles Mott - Religion - 1993 - 349 pages
...Burke, Reflections on the Revolution, 67; cf. Guroian, "Possibilities and Limits of Politics, 195. "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom" (Burke, 68 [his emphasis], cf. 69). 65. 'Burke, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, 166. 66. Guroian,... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...Attributed to WILLIAM SCRANTON, governor of Pennsylvania. Unverified. Government— definition of 773 Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. EDMUND BURKE, "Reflections on the Revolution in France," 1790, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund... | |
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. 
