| Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 270 lehte
...station." " A party," he declared, " is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." " Men thinking freely, will," he very well knew, " in particular instances, think differently. But... | |
| American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1897 - 476 lehte
...united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle upon which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive that anyone believes in his own politics; or thinks them to be of any weight, who refuses to adopt the means... | |
| Samuel Eagle Forman - 1898 - 204 lehte
...POLITICAL PARTIES " A political party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. Party division, whether in the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government."... | |
| William Samuel Lilly - 1899 - 396 lehte
...first considerable apologist—is Burke. "Party" he defines as " a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest upon...particular principle in which they are all agreed." He argues that such " connexions in politics " are " essentially necessary for the full performance... | |
| Goldwin Smith - 1899 - 506 lehte
...of the combination was secured. Burke's definition of party as "a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon...particular principle in which they are all agreed," though panegyrical, might then have had place. Deliverance from the Stuarts and their tyranny was a... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 lehte
...by placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places. Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon...believes in his own politics, or thinks them to be of auj weight, who refuses to adopt the means of having them reduced into practice. It is the business... | |
| Moisei Ostrogorski - 1902 - 866 lehte
...function. '^According to Burke's well-known formula, a party is "a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest upon...particular principle in which they are all agreed." However elastic may be this definition given by the great champion of the party system, it assigns... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 534 lehte
...some time later as a manifesto of the Rockingham party : " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they arc all agreed." The oldest man living could remember no government so weak in oratorical talents and... | |
| Walter Thomas Mills - 1904 - 652 lehte
...hold. He said: "A political party is a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavors, the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." If this is correct, and if the above observations are substantially true, it is easily seen that the... | |
| T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 lehte
...being the express image of the feelings of the nation. Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon...particular principle in which they are all agreed. Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his... | |
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