 When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy : neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive ; the rational...  Speech and Scrap Book for Speakers - Page 3001924 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Shyamal Bhattacharjee - 2004 - 100 pages
...society, widens the gap between what we believe and what really is. * When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance...found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my street of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive... | |
 | Bauman, Zygmunt - 2004 - 137 pages
...community. Gans begins his book with a quotation from Thomas Paine: When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance...aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive ... when these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and its government.... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...not required in the country. When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars;...oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness: then may that country boast its constitution and its government. Never... | |
 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 pages
...adults; pensions for the elderly; and a graduated income tax: "When it shall be said in any country in the world, 'my poor are happy, neither ignorance...oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness'; when these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution... | |
 | Mary Agnes Best - 1927 - 496 pages
...he would never again forget her. Chapter XI THE DUEL WITH BURKE When it shall be said in any country in the world, My poor are happy: neither ignorance...oppressive ; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness: when these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution... | |
 | A C Kapur - 1997 - 914 pages
...no clue to me real purpose of the State. Paine wrote more than 150 years ago: "When it shall x said my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress...of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are net oppressive, — when those things are said, then may that country boast of its government." The... | |
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