Charles Joseph Bonaparte: His Life and Public ServicesC. Scribner's sons, 1922 - 302 páginas |
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Charles Joseph Bonaparte: His Life and Public Services Joseph Bucklin Bishop Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 87 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Página 231 - They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from public papers, but imagine themselves writing a life when they exhibit a chronological series of actions or preferments ; and solittle regard the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation \\itii one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral.
Página 178 - The points of difference between Christianity and Judaism have very much to do with a man's fitness to Je a bishop or a rabbi. But they have no more to do with his fitness to be a magistrate, a legislator, or a minister of finance, than with his fitness to be a cobbler.
Página 62 - IN vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.
Página 181 - ... case. I am not George Washington, but President of the United States ; as George Washington, I would do this man any kindness in my power ; but as President of the United States, I can do nothing.
Página 128 - And there shall also be appointed a meet person, learned in the law, to act as attorney-general for the United States, who shall be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office; whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the President of the United States...
Página 173 - ... become, and be seen by all to have become impossible for the future. I must not be understood to mean that constitutional provisions and laws and ordinances, or systems and rules of administration may not be material factors in the problem ; what I wish to make clear is that they are not vital factors ; the one thing indispensable, the one thing without which good government of any kind or degree is impossible, and which, under reasonable limitations, takes the place and supplies the want of...
Página 79 - ... proportional representation and the referendum and the Gothenburg liquor system, and their work will tell in time; but, while they read and think and write, this rascal has been nominated by a packed convention chosen at fraudulent primaries and that rascal has been caught with his arms up to the elbow in the people's money box, and the ordinary every-day citizen is saying, with our old friend Tweed: "Well, what are you, you reformers, going to do about it?
Página 67 - It is no exaggeration of language to say that saloons and gambling houses and brothels are here nurseries for statesmen, that the active hostilities of their keepers is, if not fatal, at least a grave impediment to success in public life ; and that men and women who gain their living by habitually breaking laws have a potent voice in selecting the public servants who make, interpret, and execute those laws.
Página 66 - ... was written an inveterate malady of the body politic in Maryland was, or seemed to be, the indulgence of public opinion for offenses against the freedom and purity of the suffrage. It is safe to say that a majority of those there holding prominent positions of public trust were, at that time, men widely and reasonably believed to have, at some stage of their political career, either taken part in fraud, bribery or violence at legal or "primary" elections, or knowingly accepted offices or nominations...