| Henry Clay - 1843 - 624 páginas
...the most sacred of duties to apply the proper corrective. Government is a trust, and the officers of government are trustees: and both the trust and the...trustees are created for the benefit of the people. Official incumbents are bound, therefore, to administer the trust, not for their own private or individual... | |
| Henry Clay - 1863 - 830 páginas
...the most sacred of duties to apply the proper corrective. Government is a trust, and the officers of government are trustees ; and both the trust and the...trustees are created for the benefit of the people. Official incumbents are bound, therefore, to administer the trust, not for their own private or individual... | |
| James Schouler - 1885 - 568 páginas
...of his country. "Government is a trust," as Clay has well said, " and the officers of government arc trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. Official incumbents are bound, therefore, to administer the trust, not for their own private or individual... | |
| James Schouler - 1885 - 566 páginas
...in the name of his country. " Government is a trust," as Clay has well said, " and the officers of government are trustees. And both the trust and the...trustees are created for the benefit of the people. Official incumbents are bound, therefore, to administer the trust, not for their own private or individual... | |
| Carl Schurz - 1887 - 402 páginas
...raised his voice against the noxious innovation. This principle he laid down as his starting - point : " Government is a trust, and the officers of the government...trustees are created for the benefit of the people." In solemn words of prophecy he painted the effects which the systematic violation of this principle,... | |
| 1888 - 480 páginas
...denounced the new debasing regime. In his speech on his return home from service as Secretary of State, he said : " Government is a trust, and the officers of...trustees are created for the benefit of the people." Upon the whole, Clay's relations to our foreign diplomacy were advantageous to the country, being in... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - 1890 - 708 páginas
...JAMES SCHOULEH. 18УУ-. " PUBLIC OFFICE IS A PUBLIC TRUST. From n Speech at Ashland, Ky., March, 1829. Government is a trust, and the officers of the government...trustees are created for the benefit of the people. HENRY CLAY. 1777-1852. From a Speech in the US Senate, 31 May, 1872. The appointing power of the pope... | |
| Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 páginas
...children. All governing over-much kills the self-help and energy of the governed. Wendell Phillips. , H. Clay. 20 Government is the greatest combination of forces known to human society. It can command... | |
| Wilbur Fisk Gordy, Willis Ira Twitchell - 1893 - 428 páginas
...be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. — George Washington. Government is a trust, and the officers of the government...trustees are created for the benefit of the people. — Henry Clay. I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1895 - 376 páginas
...fitness for"*' the service required, and to have their tenure of office depend upon their efficiency. Government is a trust, and the officers of the government...trustees are created for the benefit of the people. — Henry Clay. federal, state, and municipal. — and the enforcement therein of such just and sound... | |
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