 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 is left.  Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Page 53by Edmund Burke - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with us. My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament...sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 468 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...sometimes bought by kindness, but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you... | |
 | Elias J. MacEwan - Debates and debating - 1899 - 438 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...sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. " A further objection to force is, that you... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 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...sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 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...sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1920 - 296 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...sometimes bought by kindness, but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1920 - 118 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... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 874 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...sometimes bought by kindness, but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you... | |
 | Frederick Houk Law - English language - 1921 - 392 pages
...nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered. "My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force; and an armament...sometimes bought by kindness, but they can never be begged an alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. "A further objection to force is, that you... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 876 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...sometimes bought by kindness, but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you... | |
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