 | 1911 - 372 pages
...Secretary of War : " I shall not, while I have the honor to administer the Government, bring a man into office of consequence, knowingly, whose political...adverse to the measures, which the General Government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass... | |
 | Mary Louise Hinsdale - 1911 - 376 pages
...Secretary of War : " I shall not, while I have the honor to administer the Government, bring a man into office of consequence, knowingly, whose political...adverse to the measures, which the General Government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - 1915 - 518 pages
...September 25, 1795, he said: "I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring any man into any office of consequence knowingly whose...adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide." l In this declaration,... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1918 - 362 pages
...September, 1795, "while I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office whose political tenets are adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing, for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide." The brief experiment... | |
 | Everett Kimball - 1920 - 650 pages
...wrote to Pickering : I shall not, whilst I have the honor of administering the government, bring men into any office of consequence knowingly whose political tenets are adverse to the measures the general government is pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide.1... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1921 - 704 pages
...undesirable. " I shall not," he said in 1795, " while I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly...adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing." Thus early in our history our government became a government of parties, and it has... | |
 | Willis Mason West - 1922 - 906 pages
...in his seeond administration: "I shall not, while I have the honor of administering the government, bring a man into any office of consequence, knowingly,...whose political tenets are adverse to the measures the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide."... | |
 | Arthur Benton Mavity, Nancy Barr Mavity - 1923 - 444 pages
...wrote to Pickering: "I shall not, whilst I have the honor of administering the government, bring men into any office of consequence knowingly whose political tenets are adverse to the measures the general government is pursuing; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide."... | |
 | 1925 - 508 pages
...the House "8Above, 121, n. 131. ""'I shall not whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing." To Pickering, Sept. 27. Writings, Ford, ed., XIII, 107; Lodge, Washington, II, 242-43.... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1928 - 652 pages
...Secretary of War, Washington wrote : " I shall not, while I have the honor of administering the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly...whose political tenets are adverse to the measures the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide."... | |
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I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be... 
