 | 1902 - 334 pagina’s
...reserve the grievous change that has been wrought in our political circles. "Government," he said, "is force. Politics is a battle for supremacy. Parties...place in a political campaign. The object is success." But this is not the commonwealth the Puritans established and their descendants maintained for so many... | |
 | 1891 - 836 pagina’s
...one who for a great part of these last years has been its president. Said this senator a year ago : " Government is force. Politics is a battle for supremacy. Parties are the armies. The Decalogue and Golden Rule have no place in a political campaign. The object is success. To defeat the antagonist... | |
 | 1889 - 1104 pagina’s
...public affairs, is a truer patriot and a nobler American than the Senator from Kansas declaring that the decalogue and the golden rule have no place in a political campaign. Our plea for civil service reform rests upon the actual situation. Other public questions than that... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1895 - 790 pagina’s
...politician recently phrased it, they believe that ' the purification of politics is an iridescent dream; the decalogue and the golden rule have no place in a political campaign. ' The cynicism, no less silly than vicious, with which such men regard political life is repaid by the contemptuous... | |
 | 1891 - 506 pagina’s
...said to France, " Thou sbalt have no gods but me." On a like theory, Senator Ingalls of Kansas says, "The purification of politics is an iridescent dream....place in a political campaign. The object is success. In war it is lawful to hire Hessians, to purchase mercenaries, to mutilate, to kill, to destroy. The... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1891 - 268 pagina’s
...politician recently phrased -it, they believe that " the purification of politics is an iridescent dream ; the decalogue and the golden rule have no place in a political campaign." The cynicism, no less silly than vicious, with which such men regard political life is repaid by the contemptuous... | |
 | William Butler - 1892 - 390 pagina’s
...heroes—this man is reported as having given utterance to the following peculiar and amazing language: The purification of politics is an iridescent dream....supremacy. Parties are the armies. The decalogue and the goldeu rule have no place in a political campaign. The object is success. To defeat the antagonist... | |
 | Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - 1892 - 330 pagina’s
...United States Senate, when he said : The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. Government la force. Politics is a battle for supremacy. Parties...the armies. The decalogue and the golden rule have noplace In a political campaign. The object is success. To defeat the antagonist and expel th« party... | |
 | Stoyan Vasil Tsanoff - 1897 - 220 pagina’s
...happiness and comfort! We hear on all sides loud lamentations over avaricious political corruption. " Government is force; politics is a battle for supremacy:...the Decalogue and the Golden Rule have no place in politics." There the object is success. To defeat and expel the party in power is the desired end,... | |
 | Hallowell (Me.) - 1899 - 74 pagina’s
...brutally frank statement written by a former United States Senator. None of us, however, believe it. ''The purification of politics is an iridescent dream....The object is success. To defeat the antagonist and to expel the party in power is the purpose. In war it is lawful to deceive the adversary, to hire Hessians,... | |
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... *"The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. Government is force. Politics is a battle for supremacy. Parties are the armies. The decalogue and the golden rule have no place in a political campaign. 
