 | Henry Clay - United States - 1843 - 624 pages
...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...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 pages
...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...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 - United States - 1863 - 830 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Religion - 1888 - 504 pages
...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 - American literature - 1890 - 708 pages
...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 - United States - 1893 - 428 pages
...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 - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...energy of the governed. Wendell Phillips. 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. H. Clay. 20 Government is the greatest combination of forces known to human society. It can command... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Citizenship - 1895 - 394 pages
...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... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1896 - 398 pages
...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,... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...wire. p. CHURCHILL — Night. L. 257. Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. d. SIR THOMAS BROWNE — Hy q. HENRY CLAY — Speech at Lexington. May 16, 1829. I have considered the pension list of the republic... | |
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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. 
