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 | United States. President - 1846 - 766 Seiten
...government from its legitimate ends, and make it an engine for the support of the few at the expense of the many. The duties of all public officers are, or at...readily qualify themselves for their performance ; and I can not but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally to... | |
 | United States. President - 1853 - 544 Seiten
...government from its legitimate ends, and make it an engine for the support of the few at the expense of the many. The duties of all public officers are, or at...readily qualify themselves for their performance ; and I can not but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally to... | |
 | 1853 - 514 Seiten
...government from its legitimate ends, and make it an p.ngine for the support of the few at the expense of the many. The duties of all public officers are, or at...admit of being made, so plain and simple that men of inteltigence may readily qualify themselves for their performance ; and I cannot but believe that more... | |
 | 1920 - 504 Seiten
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 | Charles Reemelin - 1881 - 676 Seiten
...by Jackson in his second message, that " the duties of all public officers are, or admit, at least, of being made so plain and simple, that men of intelligence...readily qualify themselves for their performance." This error was very natural in a man grown up under social conditions, of which slavery is the controlling... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 900 Seiten
...government from its legitimate ends, and make it an engine for the support of the few at the expense of the many. The duties of all public officers are, or at...readily qualify themselves for their performance ; and I can not but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally to... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 904 Seiten
...government from its legitimate ends, and make it an engine for the support of the few at the expense of the many. The duties of all public officers are, or at...readily qualify themselves for their performance ; and I can not but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally to... | |
 | Edward Morse Shepard - 1888 - 416 Seiten
...of all public officers," he declared, with an ignorance then very common among Americans, could be " made so plain and simple that men of intelligence...readily qualify themselves for their performance." Further, he pointed out that no one man had '' any more intrinsic right " to office than another; and... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 586 Seiten
...government from its legitimate ends and make it an engine for the support of the few at the expense of the many. The duties of all public officers are, or at...readily qualify themselves for their performance; and I can not but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally to... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 690 Seiten
...government from its legitimate ends and make it an engine for the support of the few at the expense of the many. The duties of all public officers are, or at...readily qualify themselves for their performance; and I can not but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally to... | |
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