 | United States. Congress - 1835 - 676 sider
...ourselves — the very essence of a free Government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for...that system of political morals which regards offices in a different light, as public prizes to be won by combatants most skilled in all the arts and corruption... | |
 | 1835 - 674 sider
...Government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and nut for the benefit of an individual or a party; and that system of political morals which regards offices in a different light, as public prizes to be won by combatants most skilled in all the arts and corruption... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1853 - 678 sider
...ourselves—the very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for...that system of political morals which regards offices in a different light, as public prizes to be won by combatants most skilled in all the arts and corruption... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1864 - 674 sider
...ourselves — the very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for...that system of political morals which regards offices in a different light, as public prizes to be won by combatants most skilled in all the arts and corruption... | |
 | 1876 - 382 sider
...deceive ourselves. The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party." The system of political morals which regards offices in a different light, viz., as public prizes to... | |
 | 1878 - 176 sider
...deceive ourselves. The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party." The system of political morals which regards offices in a different light, viz., as public prizes to... | |
 | Ladies' Calhoun Monument Association - 1888 - 176 sider
...deceive ourselves. The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country, and not for...that system of political morals which regards offices in a different light as public prizes to be won by combatants most skilled in the arts of political... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1880 - 1294 sider
...the money spent in the localities represented ; but he begged to remind them that they had met there for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of any particular constituency. He should like to say a few words upon that Vote. They spent an enormous... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 554 sider
...ourselves, the very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for...that system of political morals which regards offices in a different light, as public prizes to be won by combatants most skilled in all the arts and corruption... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 538 sider
...ourselves, the very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for...that system of political morals which regards offices in a different light, as public prizes to be won by combatants most skilled in all the arts and corruption... | |
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Let us not deceive ourselves — the very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party... 
