 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 904 pages
...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 least admit...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 pages
...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 - 532 pages
...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 least admit...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 pages
...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 least admit...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 - 694 pages
...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 least admit...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 - 1897 - 586 pages
...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 least admit...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... | |
 | 1899 - 746 pages
...under the iullucuce of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their public duties. ' ' The duties of all public officers are, or, at least, admit...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... | |
 | Sara May Riggs - 1902 - 200 pages
...see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy SENATOR MARCY. The duties of all public officers are, or at least admit...than is generally to be gained by their experience. . . . In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any... | |
 | Charles Edward Merriam - 1903 - 392 pages
...influence of feelings unfavorable to the discharge of their public duties." And again he argued that " the duties of all public officers are, or at least admit...performance ; and I cannot but believe that more is lost by long continuance of men in office than is generally to be gained by their experience." He further urged... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach - 1904 - 1358 pages
...capacity of the people. Jackson said in his first annual message: "The duties of all public offices are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and...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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The duties of all public officers are, or, at least, admit of being made so plain and simple, that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance... 
