 | Henry Clay - United States - 1843 - 624 pages
...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 - United States - 1863 - 830 pages
...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 - United States - 1885 - 568 pages
...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 - United States - 1885 - 566 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1887 - 402 pages
...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,... | |
 | Religion - 1888 - 504 pages
...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 - American literature - 1890 - 708 pages
...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...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 is treated... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy, Willis Ira Twitchell - United States - 1893 - 428 pages
...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...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, no East, no West,... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...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 - Citizenship - 1895 - 376 pages
...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...created for the benefit of the people. — Henry Clay. federal, state, and municipal. — and the enforcement therein of such just and sound principles and... | |
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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. 
