 | Henry Clay - 1843 - 624 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 - 504 էջ
...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 the government...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 էջ
...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... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy, Willis Ira Twitchell - 1893 - 428 էջ
...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,... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 էջ
...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1895 - 376 էջ
...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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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. 
