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" Where popular discontents have been very prevalent; it may well be affirmed and supported, that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 283
1827
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Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue

Stephen H. Browne - 1993 - 172 pages
...[of political rectitude] is at least upon a par in favor of the people." Ultimately, Burke concludes, "The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong it is their error and not their crime. But with the governing part of the state it is far otherwise. They may certainly...
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 pages
...there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the state, it is far otherwise. They certainly...
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The Governance of England, Otherwise Called, The Difference Between an ...

Sir John Fortescue, Charles Plummer - 1999 - 412 pages
...1433 al. (Rot. Pari. iv. 33-5, 367, 419, &c.). Burke (Present Discontents) quotes the following from Sully: 'Pour la populace, ce n'est jamais par envie d'attaquer qu'elle se soulevé, mais par impatience de souffrir/ Conversely: 'felicite or peas in every Reame is evermore...
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Dumbing Down: Culture, Politics and the Mass Media

Ivo Mosley - 2000 - 340 pages
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Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order

Ivo Mosley - 2003 - 108 pages
...these circumstances they have proved to be not malicious. This fits with Edmund Burke's observation: the people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error and not their crime. But with the governing part of the state, it is far otherwise. They may certainly...
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James Otis the Pre Revolutionist

John Clark Ridpath - 2004 - 116 pages
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The Works of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - 2004 - 516 pages
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the state, it is far otherwise. They certainly...
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Maxims and Reflections of Burke

F. W. Raffety - 2006 - 168 pages
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The Heavenly Twins

Sarah Grand - 2007 - 780 pages
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