| 1913 - 1088 páginas
...good work. It may be the highest duty of the patriotic public servant to work with the big boss or the big business man on these points, while refusing to...Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of the scoundrel he was ignorant of the infinite possibilities contained in the word reform. Yet, none... | |
| Alfred Ronald Conkling - 1889 - 776 páginas
...are wolves in HIS ROCHESTER SPEECH. 541 sheep's clothing. Their real object is office and plunder. When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he was unconscious of the then undeveloped capabilities and uses of the word "Reform." Yet long before Johnson... | |
| 1900 - 994 páginas
...a laughing-stock among decent men. A caustic observer once remarked that when Dr. Johnson spoke of patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, " he...infinite possibilities contained in the word ' reform.' " The sneer was discreditable to the man who uttered it, for it is no more possible to justify corruption... | |
| 1900 - 874 páginas
...decent men. Political Impracticables. A caustic observer once remarked that when Dr. Johnson spoke of patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, "he...infinite possibilities contained in the word 'reform.' " The sneer was discreditable to the man who uttered it, for it is no more possible to justify corruption... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 páginas
...a laughing-stock among decent men. A caustic observer once remarked that when Dr. Johnson spoke of patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, "he...infinite possibilities contained in the word 'reform.' " The sneer was discreditable to the man who uttered it, for it is no more possible to justify corruption... | |
| Andrew Sloan Draper - 1906 - 32 páginas
...Conkling, in the memorable Rochester convention of September, 1877, made his quite as memorable declaration that "When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he was unconscious of the then undeveloped capabilities and uses of the word 'reform/ " he was shaping a phrase... | |
| Andrew Sloan Draper - 1907 - 328 páginas
...Conkling, in the memorable Rochester convention of September, 1877, made his quite as memorable declaration that "When Dr Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he was unconscious of the then undeveloped capabilities and uses of the word ' reform,' " he was shaping a... | |
| De Alva Standwood Alexander - 1909 - 592 páginas
...canting self-righteousness. They are wolves in sheep's clothing. Their real object is office and plunder. When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he was unconscious of the then undeveloped capabilities and uses of the word reform. . . . Some of these new-found... | |
| William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1921 - 448 páginas
...unavoidable evil. The professional politician had only sneers for the reformer. Said Roscoe Conkling: "When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he was then unconscious of the then undeveloped capabilities of the word 'reform.'" In a few years recruits... | |
| Ray Burdick Smith - 1922 - 542 páginas
...canting self-righteousness. They are wolves in sheep's clothing. Their real object is office and plunder. When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel he was unconscious of the then undeveloped capabilities and uses of the word reform."7 He declared that Hayes... | |
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