 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - Great Britain - 1900 - 526 pages
...would be pleased to use them kindly, you would find as good a fence to you as any you have yet chosen. Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...minds from yourself: if you had done it when I advised you to it, I think you would not have had so many stumblingblocks in your way. It may be you judge... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - Generals - 1900 - 362 pages
...Anabaptist ' ! Are you sure of that ? Admit he be, shall that render him incapable to serve the public ? Sir, the state, in choosing men to serve it, takes...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 464 pages
...before — to a far larger and grander point of view. " The State," he boldly laid down at last, " in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. * But as yet he was busier with his new regiment than with theories; and the Ironsides were no sooner... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1900 - 1004 pages
...Anabaptist. Are you sure of that? Admit that he be, shall that render him incapable to serve the public? Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it takes no...of their opinions; if they be willing faithfully to sem it, that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men of different minds from yourself; if... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth - Great Britain - 1900 - 590 pages
...to his command. " Admit he be an Anabaptist, shall that render him incapable to serve the public ? Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing to serve it faithfully, that suffices." Six months later, after a second quarrel with Crawford on the... | |
 | John Morley - 1900 - 620 pages
...when practical convenience recommended or demanded it. When he told Crawford early in the war that the state in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their opinions, he struck the true note of toleration from the statesman's point of view. His was the practical temper... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 420 pages
...be pleased to use them kindly, you would find as good a fence to you as any you have yet chosen. " Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...minds from yourself: if you had done it when I advised you to it, I think you would not have had so many stumbling-blocks in your way. It may be you judge... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1901 - 464 pages
...10. Cromweii;5 Anabaptist. "Admit he be, shall that render him incapable to serve the public ? . . . Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it, takes...minds from yourself. If you had done it when I advised you to it, you would not have had so many stumbling-blocks in your way. Take heed of being sharp, or... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 458 pages
...great principle of religious toleration laid down, very simply, by Oliver Cromwell, when he wrote : " Sir, — -The State, in choosing men to serve it,...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. Take heed of being sharp or too easily sharpened by others against those to whom you can object little... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 600 pages
...is sometimes considered a bigot. His rule on this subject is therefore the more worthy of record : "Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom yon can object... | |
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Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men of different minds from yourself : if you had done it when I advised... 
