On the record
How will such officials be likely to serve an Administration which they know does not trust them?
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Grant questions the trustworthiness of officials in an administration that does not show them confidence.
Share
More from Ulysses S. Grant
At the time of the framing of our constitution the only physical forces that had been subdued and made to serve man and do his labor, were the currents in the streams and in the air we breathe.
Unhappily, however, this baneful influence has thus far succeeded in defeating the efforts of all liberal-minded men in Spain to abolish slavery in Cuba, and in preventing the promised reform in that island.
There is no class of Government employees who are harder worked than the Army--officers and men; none who perform their tasks more cheerfully and efficiently and under circumstances of greater privations and hardships.
History shows that no Administration from the time of Washington to the present has been free from these mistakes.
Other voices in this conversation
