URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/38071
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 it...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 it...John Stuart Mill, Essay on Representative Government - published 1860.
Collection Title Poster collection
Date Created 1917/1918?
Description Text with three stars. Variant of US 4741; size and color vary.
Subject(s) Essay on Representative Government Representative government and representation Liberty Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 United States
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Country of Origin United States
Dimensions Overall: 31 x 22 in. (78.7 x 55.9 cm)
Format Poster
Medium political posters
Color black and white
Color black and white
Hoover ID Poster US 4741A
Record Number XX343.28447
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt829015km
Rights No known restrictions.