Party and Patriotism: Or, The Degeneracy of PoliticsSwan Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, 1886 - 149 sider |
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Side 41
... Commons . And it will but lead to mischief if it is sought to enforce it on the " free and independent " elector . The advantages of party discipline are almost insignificant beside its evils , beside its PARTY ORGANISATION - THE CAUCUS .
... Commons . And it will but lead to mischief if it is sought to enforce it on the " free and independent " elector . The advantages of party discipline are almost insignificant beside its evils , beside its PARTY ORGANISATION - THE CAUCUS .
Side 42
... Commons the weaker we may expect to find the claims of party ; and with an extended franchise we may reasonably hope to see the electorate less swayed by party considerations . But this hope will not be fulfilled if the caucus system is ...
... Commons the weaker we may expect to find the claims of party ; and with an extended franchise we may reasonably hope to see the electorate less swayed by party considerations . But this hope will not be fulfilled if the caucus system is ...
Side 61
... Commons is so thoroughly the centre of politics and the playground of party that it cannot be left out of any consideration of political ethics . And indeed so far as the abuses of party are concerned it may be said to be the fons et ...
... Commons is so thoroughly the centre of politics and the playground of party that it cannot be left out of any consideration of political ethics . And indeed so far as the abuses of party are concerned it may be said to be the fons et ...
Side 62
... Commons , " he writes , " is doubt- less an excellent sounding - board for the voice of personal ambition , a first - rate arena for the gladiator whose tongue is his sword . But I look upon the gift of popular oratory with the gravest ...
... Commons , " he writes , " is doubt- less an excellent sounding - board for the voice of personal ambition , a first - rate arena for the gladiator whose tongue is his sword . But I look upon the gift of popular oratory with the gravest ...
Side 63
... Commons that these truths can be urged , and only , I believe , by people outside the House of Commons that they can be clearly appre- hended . Believing as I do that unless foreign and imperial policy , the army and the navy , are ...
... Commons that these truths can be urged , and only , I believe , by people outside the House of Commons that they can be clearly appre- hended . Believing as I do that unless foreign and imperial policy , the army and the navy , are ...
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Populære avsnitt
Side 137 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man...
Side 35 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Side 52 - The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless: it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends, but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property.
Side 19 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Side 104 - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Side 43 - ... there never was more necessity for surrounding individual independence of thought, speech, and conduct with the most powerful defences, in order to maintain that originality of mind and individuality of character which are the only source of any real progress, and of most of the qualities which make the human race much superior to any herd of animals.
Side 56 - ... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well, loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes ; yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.
Side 36 - ... parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole : — you choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
Side 105 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth 4 the reformation.
Side 92 - AA death. If we take the wrong road, we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do ? ' Be strong and of a good courage.