Speech and Scrap Book for SpeakersSpeakers' service bureau, 1924 - 304 pages |
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Page 69
... cent finish high school , and over 75 per cent are forced to leave school before they reach the seventh grade . Army tests revealed that 29 per cent of all men called in the draft could not read nor write , and that more than 70 out of ...
... cent finish high school , and over 75 per cent are forced to leave school before they reach the seventh grade . Army tests revealed that 29 per cent of all men called in the draft could not read nor write , and that more than 70 out of ...
Page 71
... cent of the people . Truth is at their mercy and they have the mob orator and leader backed off the boards . Their papers , as Charles Edward Russell has told us , are the most enterprising in the world when it comes to reporting wars ...
... cent of the people . Truth is at their mercy and they have the mob orator and leader backed off the boards . Their papers , as Charles Edward Russell has told us , are the most enterprising in the world when it comes to reporting wars ...
Page 72
... cent of the newspapers and magazines in this country are out and out liars , and they have little but con- tempt for them ; they know that they are owned and controlled by the same interests that control the courts and the Govern- ment ...
... cent of the newspapers and magazines in this country are out and out liars , and they have little but con- tempt for them ; they know that they are owned and controlled by the same interests that control the courts and the Govern- ment ...
Page 75
... cent . Of course this big increase is easily explained , because a child's labor is cheap and often crowds out adult labor . And what a wretched picture it is ! -wholesale numbers of children being robbed of play and development and ...
... cent . Of course this big increase is easily explained , because a child's labor is cheap and often crowds out adult labor . And what a wretched picture it is ! -wholesale numbers of children being robbed of play and development and ...
Page 109
... cent of its members . So with things as they are , this public which sits in irrespon- sive silence while its own laws are trampled on ; the public which assumes no responsibility for , and takes no interest in the wel- fare of those ...
... cent of its members . So with things as they are , this public which sits in irrespon- sive silence while its own laws are trampled on ; the public which assumes no responsibility for , and takes no interest in the wel- fare of those ...
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Popular passages
Page 288 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 267 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious.
Page 248 - I HEARTILY accept the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Page 228 - My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to speak the language of ' We, the people,' instead of ' We, the States ' ? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national government, of the people of all the States.
Page 285 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 285 - I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you.
Page 286 - Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Page 54 - Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 267 - Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Page 300 - When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy : neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive ; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness: when these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and its government.