 ... to put down bribery, corruption, and trickery; to see that none but competent, faithful, and honest men, who will unflinchingly stand by...  Report - Page 366by Connecticut. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1886Full view - About this book
 | 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
...when 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 - 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 - History - 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 - United States - 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... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Agriculture - 1874 - 586 pages
...nominated for all positions. It should always characterize every Patron of Husbandry that the offices should seek the man and not the man the office. We...difference of opinion is no crime, and hold that progress towards truth is made by differences of opinion, while the fault lies in bitterness of controversy.... | |
 | Jonathan Periam - Agricultural societies - 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 broad principle that difference of opinion is not crime, and hold that progress towards truth is made by differences of opinion, while the fault... | |
 | New England - 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... | |
 | National Grange - 1874 - 90 pages
...for all positions of trust ; and to .have carried out the principle which should always characterize every Patron, that THE OFFICE SHOULD SEEK THE MAN, AND NOT THE MAN VHE OFFICE. We acknowledge the broad principle that difference of opinion is no crime, and hold that... | |
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