 The principal danger lies in the attempt often made to convert into crimes acts regarded by large numbers, perhaps a majority, as innocent — that is to practise what is, in fact, tyranny. While all are ready to agree that tyranny is a very mischievous...  What Prohibition Has Done to America - Pàgina 70per Fabian Franklin - 1922 - 127 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Coolidge Carter - 1907 - 446 pàgines
...prevented and the common complaint is that the State is less energetic in this work than it ought to be. The principal danger lies in the attempt often made...think that tyranny is a fault only of despots, and can not be committed under a republican form of government; they think that the maxim that the majority... | |
 | James Coolidge Carter - 1907 - 380 pàgines
...prevented, and the common complaint is that the State is less energetic in this work than it ought to be. The principal danger lies in the attempt often made...regarded by large numbers, perhaps a majority, as innocent—that is, to practise what is, in fact, tyranny. While all are ready to agree that tyranny... | |
 | Brand Whitlock - 1913 - 112 pàgines
...of every individual, in which the things to be done and those not to be done were clearly set down" (p. 221). "The principal danger lies in the attempt...think that tyranny is a fault only of despots, and can not be committed under a republican form of government ; they think that the maxim that the majority... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1913 - 188 pàgines
...large numbers, perhaps a majority, as innocent; that is, to practice what is, in fact, tyranny. We all are ready to agree that tyranny is a very mischievous...think that tyranny is a fault only of despots and can not be committed under a republican form of government. They think lhat the maxim that the majority... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1912 - 188 pàgines
...affecting personal liberty and the questions of local option and prohibition, he utters these wise words: The principal danger lies in the attempt often made...numbers, perhaps a majority, as innocent; that is, to practice what is, in fact, tyranny. We all are ready to agree that tyranny is a very mischievous thing.... | |
 | Brand Whitlock - 1913 - 112 pàgines
...of every individual, in which the things to be done and those not to be done were clearly set down" (p. 221). "The principal danger lies in the attempt...regarded by large numbers, perhaps a majority, as innocent—that is to practise what is, in fact, tyranny. While all are ready to agree that tyranny... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1913 - 198 pàgines
...utters these wise words: The principal danger lies in the attempt oflen made to convert into crinles acts regarded by large numbers, perhaps a majority, as innocent: that is, to practice what is, in fact, tyranny. We all are re:uly to agree that tyranny is a very mischievous thing.... | |
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