 | George Denison Prentice - 1831 - 322 páginas
...ready to support it, so far as was consistent with his duty, he remarked : " Government is a trust, and the officers of government are trustees; and both...therefore, to administer the trust, not for their own individual benefit — but so as to promote the prosperity of the people. This is the vital principle... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1843 - 624 páginas
...they will be urged by 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, not for their own private or individual benefits', but so as to promote the prosperity of the people. This is the vital principle of a republic.... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1857 - 704 páginas
...they will be urged by the most sacred of duties to apply the proper corrective. Government is a trust, and the officers of government are trustees ; and...bound, therefore, to administer the trust, not for then- own private or individual benefits, but so as to promote the prosperity of the people. This is... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1863 - 830 páginas
...they will be urged by the most sacred of duties to apply the proper corrective. Government is a trust, and the officers of government are trustees ; and...the trust, not for their own private or individual benefits, bnt so as to promote the prosperity of the people. This is the vital principle of a republic.... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1887 - 402 páginas
...This principle he laid down as his starting - point : " 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." In solemn words of prophecy he painted the effects which the systematic violation of this principle,... | |
 | 1888 - 480 páginas
...home from service as Secretary of State, he said : " 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." 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
...PUBLIC TRUST. From n Speech at Ashland, Ky., March, 1829. 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. 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 páginas
...effectual means of preserving peace. — George Washington. 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. — Henry Clay. I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North,... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 páginas
...self-help and energy of the governed. Wendell Phillips. Government is a trust, and the officers of the H. Clay. 20 Government is the greatest combination of forces known to human society. It can command... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1895 - 394 páginas
...their tenure of office depend upon their efficiency. 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. — Henri/ 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. 
