...certain well-known lines sufficiently demonstrates.1 It was necessary, therefore, 1 For instance : — " For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er...best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight: His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope mankind may disagree, But all the...

...the pith extracted, the sum and substance turned into a golden sentence for all time, in the lines : For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best. L. 308. Take upon content ,• Take upon trust. L. 315. But truo expres«lon : This admirable triplet...

...the most quoted English tags in the Prussian political writings of the post-war period was Pope's : ' For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best'. Cf. T. Wilhelm, Die englische Verfassung und der vormdrzliche Liberalismus (Stuttgart, 1928). 7 'Uber...

...if well administered] Alluding to Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle III, 11. 303-4: "For Forms of Government let fools contest; / Whate'er is best administered is best." 5.1-3 Then the Motion . . . accordingly.] Though the speech failed in its purpose of gaining the signatures...

...choose led him on a downward path towards moral corruption. Carter, whose favourite lines are Pope's 'For forms of government let fools contest,/ Whate'er is best administered is best' (p. 324), finds he has ministered to 'good' as easily as to 'evil' and has been close to becoming a...

...rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. William Beveridge (1879-1963) British economist For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government....

...is the saviour of the state. Perhaps the most famous quotation on the subject comes from Alexander Pope. 'For forms of government let fools contest; whate'er is best administered is best!' By contrast, early communist writers also concluded that administration was a simple matter which could...

...having at last, after many years of experience, become convinced of the truth of Pope's famous saying: 'For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best.'7 If this means that the best administered government is the best administered, he has cracked...

...one comfort still must rise. 'Tis this, — Though man's a fool, yet God is wise. (Fr. Epistle II) 83 For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best: (Fr. Epistle III) 84 What's fame? A fancied life in others' breath, (Fr. Epistle IV) 85 An honest man's...

...XIV's successors. The familiar couplet by Alexander Pope is "classical" in thought as in expression: For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best. Whether monarchical powers were exercised through free decisions of a wise Sovereign, or hedged about...