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... course as a public servant has been so sure- footed and unerring . Few men have entered on public office surrounded by so many dan- gerous pitfalls ; I recall no man who has made fewer mistakes . In view of it all one might say that he ...
... course as a public servant has been so sure- footed and unerring . Few men have entered on public office surrounded by so many dan- gerous pitfalls ; I recall no man who has made fewer mistakes . In view of it all one might say that he ...
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... . Gradually , too , the old leaders have come to him , and he has listened patiently to their recommendations , though reserving to his own judgment and conscience the right and duty of final decisions . Of course , his Introductory xxxvii.
... . Gradually , too , the old leaders have come to him , and he has listened patiently to their recommendations , though reserving to his own judgment and conscience the right and duty of final decisions . Of course , his Introductory xxxvii.
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Jacob Gould Schurman. and duty of final decisions . Of course , his sit- uation is different from that of a President of the United States , who has a Cabinet to advise him on all matters , and Senators to make recommendations on ...
Jacob Gould Schurman. and duty of final decisions . Of course , his sit- uation is different from that of a President of the United States , who has a Cabinet to advise him on all matters , and Senators to make recommendations on ...
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... course I shall pursue , and that either action I might take would be viewed with extreme dis- favor by men whose judgment I respect and of whose sincerity there can be no question . In this dilemma I have simply to do my duty as I see ...
... course I shall pursue , and that either action I might take would be viewed with extreme dis- favor by men whose judgment I respect and of whose sincerity there can be no question . In this dilemma I have simply to do my duty as I see ...
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... course by a hairbreadth , and that I should remain , and that you intend that I should remain , entirely untrammelled . The non - political character of the investigation and its freedom from bias , either of fear or favor , not only ...
... course by a hairbreadth , and that I should remain , and that you intend that I should remain , entirely untrammelled . The non - political character of the investigation and its freedom from bias , either of fear or favor , not only ...
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Страница 66 - Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself or anyone else, a sentiment of the like nature.
Страница 191 - All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.