 | 1872 - 826 pages
...buy ; • Men who possess opinions and a will ; Men who have honor, — men who will not lie ; Men who can stand before a demagogue, And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking ! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty, and in private thinking : For while the rabble,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 650 pages
...cannot buy ; Men who possess opinions and a will ; Men who have honor— men who will not lie ; Men who can stand before a demagogue, And damn his treacherous flatteries without winkTall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty, and in private thinking : For while... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Literary Criticism - 1872 - 130 pages
...cannot buy ; Men who possess opinions and a will ; Men who have honor, — men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue, And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking ! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog Their large professions and their little deeds, — Mingle... | |
 | George Washington Julian - History - 1872 - 512 pages
...cannot buy ; Men who possess opinion and a will; Men who have honor — men who will not lie ; Men who can stand before a demagogue, And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking; Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty, and in private thinking. For while the rabble,... | |
 | Education - 1872 - 586 pages
...cannot buy ; Men who possess opinions and a will ; Men who have honor, — men who will not lie ; Men who can stand before a demagogue, And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking ! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty, and in private thinking : For while the rabble,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - History - 1873 - 638 pages
...cannot buy ; Men who possess opinions and a will ; Men who have honor, — men who will not lie ; Men who can stand before a demagogue, And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking ! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty, and in private thinking ; For while the rabble,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - History - 1873 - 686 pages
...cannot buy ; Men who possess opinions and a will ; Men who have honor, — men who will not lie ; Men who can stand before a demagogue, And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking ! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty, and in private thinking ; For while the rabble,... | |
 | John Ellsworth Goodrich - Patriotic literature, American - 1877 - 108 pages
...cannot buy ; Men who possess opinions and a will ; Men who have honor ; men who will not lie ; Men who can stand before a demagogue, And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking ; Tall men, sun crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking. For, while the rabble... | |
 | United States. 46th Congress, 2d session - Biography - 1880 - 164 pages
...not kill ; Men whom the spoils of office cannot bay ; Men who have honor; men who will not lie ; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking; Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking. Address of Mr. BARBER,... | |
 | Sutton Selwyn Scott - Southern States - 1880 - 340 pages
...Men, who possess opinions and a will, — Men, who have honor, — men, who will not lie, — Men, who can stand before a demagogue, And damn his treacherous flatteries without shrinking, — Tall men — sun-crowned — who live above the fog, In public duty, and in private... | |
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GOD, GIVE US MEN! GOD, GIVE us MEN! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have... 
