 | A. Wyatt Tilby - Great Britain - 1911 - 326 pages
...protected.' He enunciated a doctrine as startling to his own puritan comrades as to the cavaliers. ' Sir, the state, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that suffices.' He made himself the political head of... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - United States - 1912 - 298 pages
...protected.' He enunciated a doctrine as startling to his own puritan comrades as to the cavaliers. ' Sir, the state, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that suffices.' He made himself the political head of... | |
 | Samuel George Smith - Christian sociology - 1912 - 384 pages
...liberty since the days of that other apostle who wrote the epistle to the Galatians. Thus he says: ' ' The state, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions." Gaining possession of the army, he reduced the Presbyterian generals from authority and once again... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - Great Britain - 1914 - 650 pages
...whether he is a good man, — and then I want him,' said Rhodes in a speech on 23rd April 1891. ' Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that suffices,' said Cromwell. The same doctrine in substance,... | |
 | Arthur Donald Innes - Great Britain - 1914 - 298 pages
...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 no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1914 - 142 pages
...who wished to see no Baptists — or, as they were then called, Anabaptists — in the army, 'the 5 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... | |
 | Estelle Ross - Great Britain - 1915 - 222 pages
...Crawford dismissed one of his captains for being an Anabaptist, Cromwell wrote to him in indignation: "The State in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their opinions; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies." He was also convinced that, though good... | |
 | Charles Burke Elliott - Philippines - 1917 - 592 pages
...Roosevelt and President Taft. It was the principle which Cromwell announced for the government of England. 'The State in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their opinions; if they be willing faithfully to serve it that satisfies." The abandonment of this policy by President... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1921 - 90 pages
...man is. He is indiscreet, you say. It may be so in some things, we all have human infirmities. Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If men be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. Let it be Spilsby. Staines : Yes, sir. Cromwell:... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 482 pages
...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 notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men... | |
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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. 
