URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/38070
Collection Structure Poster collection >  A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they will not fight for it when it is directly attacked; if they can be deluded by the artifices used to cheat them out of ... John Stuart Mill, Essay on Representative Government - published 1860.
Item Title A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they will not fight for it when it is directly attacked; if they can be deluded by the artifices used to cheat them out of ... John Stuart Mill, Essay on Representative Government - published 1860.
Collection Title Poster collection
Publisher Citizens, Inc.
Date Created 1917/1918?
Description Text with flag.
Subject(s) Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 Essay on Representative Government Liberty United States Representative government and representation
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Published New York, United States
Country of Origin United States
Dimensions Overall: 22 x 17 in. (55.9 x 43.2 cm)
Format Poster
Medium political posters
Color color
Color color
Hoover ID Poster US 4741
Record Number XX343.28446
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt829015km
Rights No known restrictions.