GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT
All your strength is in your union,
All your danger is in discord.
L'etat!—c'est moi!
The state!—it is I!
Attributed to Louis XIV of France. Dulauee
—History of Paris. P. 387. SeeCHERUEL—
Histoire de V Administration Monarchique en
France. II. 32.
That is the best government which desires
to make the people happy, and knows how to
make them happy.
Macaulay—On Mitford's History of Greece,
1824.
The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
Sir James Mackintosh—Vindiciai Gallicee.
Sec. I.
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| text = The government of the Union, then, is emphatically and truly a government of the people.
In form and in substance it emanates from them.
Its powers are granted by them, and are to be
exercised directly on them and for their benefit.
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| text = <poem>The all-men power; government over all, by
all, and for the sake of all.
Chief Justice Marshall. Pamphlet. The
Relation of Slavery to a Republican Form of
Government. Speech delivered at the New
England Anti-Slavery Convention, May 26,
1858. Pamphlet used by Lincoln when preparing speeches. This phrase was underlined
by him.
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| text = <poem>To make a bank, was a great plot of state;
Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
Andrew Marvell—The Character of Holland.
States are not made, nor patched; they grow:
Grow slow through centuries of pain,
And grow correctly in the main;
But only grow by certain laws,
Of certain bits in certain jaws.
Masefhsld—Everlasting Mercy. St. 60.
Hope nothing from foreign governments.
They will never be really willing to aid you
until you have shown that you are strong
enough to conquer without them.
Mazzini—Life and Writings. Young Italy.
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he
will have no opponent in all the empire.
Mencius—Works. Bk. IV. Pt. I. Ch. 7.
Unearned increment.
John Stuart Mill—Political Economy. Bk.
V. Ch. II. Sec. 5. Phrase used in the land
agitation of 1870-71. Undoubtedly original
with Mill.
La corruption de chaque gouvernement commence presque toujours par celle des principes.
The deterioration of a government begins
almost always by the decay of its principles.
Montesquieu—De VEsprit. VIII. Ch. I.
Les republiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies, par la pauvrete.
Republics end through luxury; monarchies
through poverty.
Montesquieu—De VEsprit. VII. Ch. IV.
Nescis, mi fili, quantilla sapientia regitur
mundus.
Learn, my son, with how little wisdom the
world is governed.
Attributed to Axel von Oxenstierna.
Buchmann—Geflugelle Worte, attributes it
as likely to Pope Julius III, also to Orselaer, tutor to the sons of a Markgraf of
Baden. Lord Chatham claims it for Pope
Alexander VI, Jules or Leo, in Letter to
Lord Shelburne, Jan. 25, 1775. Conrad
von Bennington, Dutch Statesman, also
given credit. Quoted by Dr. Arbuthnot—
Letter to Swift, 1732-3.
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| text = <poem>There is what I call the American idea. * * *
This idea demands, as the proximate organizaation thereof, a democracy,—that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all
the people; of course, a government of the
principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law
of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea
of Freedom.
Theodore Parker—Speech at the N. E. AntiSlavery Convention. Boston, May 29, 1850.
First there is the democratic idea: that all
men are endowed by their creator with certain
natural rights; that these rights are alienable
only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal
in men; that government is to organize these
natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all
the people, by all the people, and for all the
people. Here government is development, not
exploitation.
Theodore Parker—Speech in Boston. May
31, 1854.
<poem>Democracy is direct self-government, over all
the people, for all the people, by all the people. Theodore Parker. Sermon. Delivered at Music Hall Boston, July 4, 1858. On the Effect of Slavery on the American People. P. 5. (Read and underlined by Lincoln.)
Slavery is in flagrant violation of the institutions of America—direct government—over all
the people, by all the people, for all the people. Theodore Parker. Sermon. Delivered at Music Hall, Boston. July 4, 1858. P. 14. (Read and underlined by Lincoln.)
