 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...  History of the Appointing Power of the President - Page 26by Lucy Maynard Salmon - 1886 - 129 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1836 - 600 pages
...been heard, unless the misrepresentations of party, or at best partial meetings, can be called so. for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass its movements is most certain. But of two men equally well affected to the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 596 pages
...partial meetings, can be called so. I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass its movements is most certain. But of two men equally well affected to the... | |
 | François Guizot - 1840 - 262 pages
...conduct in his administration. " I shall not, whilst I have the honour to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide*." And in 1795 he wrote as follows to Gouverneur Morris, then Minister of the United States in London.... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1840 - 216 pages
...strict unity of views and conduct. " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide."* "In a government as free as ours," he wrote to Gouverneur Morris, at that time residing in London,... | |
 | George Washington - 1848 - 604 pages
...partial meetings, can be called so. I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...my .opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass its movements is most certain. But of two men equally well affected to the... | |
 | 1849 - 770 pages
...not," said he in 1795, "whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into ¡vn office of consequence, knowingly, whose political...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass its movements, is most certain." During the second term of his Administration,... | |
 | François Guizot - 1863 - 162 pages
...strict unity of views and conduct, "I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...opinion, would be a sort of political suicide."'^ " In a government as free as ours,' ? he wrote to Gouverneur Morris, at that time residing in London,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment - 1868 - 240 pages
...Mount Vernon, September 27, 1795: I shall not, while I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass its movements is most certain. But of two men equally well affected to the... | |
 | Robert Samuel Rantoul - 1881 - 690 pages
...twenty-Seventh, 1795, wherein he says : "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 winch the general government are pursuing." (Sparks, vol. xi, p. 74.) This, it will be observed, is... | |
 | Civil Service Reform Association (Boston, Mass.) - 1882 - 52 pages
...after some experience with a wrangling cabinet, the statement regarding the attorney-generalship : " I shall not bring a man into any office of consequence...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide." f In minor appointments, Washington carried out, so far as possible, a distributive geographical rule.... | |
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