Quotes About Practicable

the habits of the governed determine in a great degree what is practicable.

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.

Men had been puffed up with pride by notions not a tithe as excellent and practicable.

If the maladministration of the democracy ever brings about a revolutionary crisis, and if monarchical institutions ever become practicable in the United States, the truth of what I advance will become obvious.

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.