 | John Greenleaf Adams - 1856 - 374 pages
...on Friday evening before, in a mass meeting, that I ' should like to see a return of the time when the office should seek the man, and not the man the office ; ' not dreaming that / should be sought so soon ! But you have probably seen that, after the adjournment... | |
 | Samuel William Southmayd Dutton - 1863 - 68 pages
...nominated, to secure an election. It was with him a fixed principle, from which he never swerved, that the office should seek the man and not the man the office ; and that a man should take office in a deliberative body untrammeled by pledges, or any influences... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1888 - 476 pages
...industrial interests are nominated for all positions of trust, and to have carried out the principle that "the office should seek the man and not the man the office." We desire a proper equality, equity, and fairness, protection for the weak, restraint for the strong... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1872 - 324 pages
...Never forget in all your public conduct that "Eternal Vigilance is the price of Liberty." LECTURE HI. THE OFFICE SHOULD SEEK THE MAN, AND NOT THE MAN THE OFFICE. 1. In Lesson XIX, 8, you may recall this passage: " We have the whole community from which to select... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1873 - 396 pages
...forget in all your public conduct that " Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty ." 9 LECTTJKE HI. » THE OFFICE SHOULD SEEK THE MAN, AND NOT THE MAN THE OFFICE. 385. In Sec. 200, you may recall this passage: " We have the whole community from tohich to select... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1874 - 556 pages
...trust, and to have carried out the principles which should always characterize every grange member; the office should seek the man, and not the man the office. 'VVe acknowledge the broad principle that difference of opinion is no crime ; that progress towards... | |
 | Jonathan Periam - 1874 - 584 pages
...trust,and to have carried out the principles which should always characterize every Grange member — that the office should seek the man, and not the man the office. We acknowledge the broad principle that difference of opinion is not crime, and hold that progress... | |
 | 1918 - 544 pages
...solicitation on his part, and often without his knowledge and against his will. He was firmly convinced that "the office should seek the man and not the man the office." In the earlier part of his life Mr. Ensign was connected with the Protestant Episcopal Church, having... | |
 | 1889 - 294 pages
...mutineering sailors. He teaches him of the evils of striving after office, .and in brief shows him that "the office should seek the man and not the man the office." Several worthy politicians in the audience who had come for hints and to listen, shrugged their shoulders... | |
| |
Patron, that the office should seek the man, and not the man the office. 
