A unity of the Executive would be necessary in order to promote dispatch; -that a plurality of Persons would never do. When I was in Holland the States general were obliged to give up their power to a French Man to direct their military operations…. However power is always increasing on the part of the Executive
He supported the Presidential concept as the least worst option.
The formation of a treaty often requires secrecy and dispatch …
Tell them to send everything that can fly.
A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.
The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
The soul of dispatch is decision.
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
Decision, activity, secrecy and dispatch will characterize the proceedings of one man in a much more eminent degree than the proceedings of any greater number and in proportion as the number is increased.
Send anyone you want, but don't send anyone you want back.
Dispatch is the soul of business.
Measure not dispatch by the times of sitting, but by the advancement of business.
1st Baron Verulam
The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.
Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.