The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-09-29
MISCELLANY
MAXIJ[S OF JAMES ABRAM GAR
FIELD ]; GENERAL, PATRIOTIC,
- POLITICAL! kiIJ
MAxIMs--aENERAL.

I.would rather be beaten in Right than
succeed in Wrong .hsn
feel a profounder reverence fora Boy than
for Man. never meet a ragged Boy in the
street without feeling that may owe him a
salute. for know not what possibilities may
be buttoned up under his coat.
Present Evils always seem greater than
those that never come. sa
\ Luck is an ignis-fatuus, You may follow
it to Ruin, but never to Success. sls
A pound of Pluck is worth ton of Luck.
Poverty is uncomfortable, as / can testify /;
but nine times out of ten the best thing that
can happen to Young man is to be tossed oy-
erboard and compelled to sink or swim for
himself. In all my acquaintance | never
knew Man to be drowned who was worth
the saving.
For the noblest Man that lives there still
remains Conflict.
The principles of Ethics have not changed
by the lapse of years. Ia ~
Growth is better than Permanence, and
permanent growth is better than all.
1t is no honor or profit merely to appear in
tiss aruua. The Wrsast ia far those wbe
contend.
MISUNDERSTANDING.
! love to believe that no herNc sacrifice is
ever lost, that the characters of men are
moulded and inspired by what their fathers
have done !; that, treasured up in American
souls are all the unconscious influences of the
great deeds of the Anglo-Saxon race, from
Agincourt to Bunker HILL
Eternity alone will reveal to the human
race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and
immortal name of Washington. s6
/ doubt if any man equalled Samuel Adams
in formulating and uttering the fierce, clear
and inoxorable logic of the Revolution.
The last eight decades has witnessed an
Empire spring up III the full panoply of lusty
life, from p trackless wilderness.
InAtbeirstruggle With the forces of Nature,
the ability to labor was the richest patrimony
Of the colonist,
The great doctrines Of the Declaration ger
minated sing the hearts Of our fathers, and
were developed under the new influences OF
this wilderness world by the same subtle
mystery which brings forth the rose from the
germ of the rose-tree. Unconsciously to
themselves the great Truths were growing
under the new conditions, until, like the cen-
tury-plaut, they blossomed into the matchless
beauty of the Declaration of Independence,
whose fruitage increased, and increasing we
enjoy to-day s CO.'S 81
Peace, liberty and personal security are
blessings as common and universal as sun
shine and showers and fruitful seasons and
all sprang from a single source--the principle
declared in the Pilgrim covenant of 1920
that all owed due submission and obedience
to the law fully expressed will Of the Majority
This is not one of the doctrines of our polit-
ical system, it is the System itself. 1t is In
our political armament, in which all other
truths are set, as stars In heaven. 1t is the
encasing air, the breath of the Nations life.
we should do nothing inconsistent with
the spirit and genius of our Institutions. We
should do nothing for revenge, but every
thing for security nothing for the past ev-
erything for the present and the future.
MAxIMs--PoLITIcAL,
The germ or our political 'institutions, the
primary cell from which they were evolved
was in the New England town, and the vital
force, the Informing soul Of the town, was
the Town Meeting, which for all local con-
Germs was king, lords and commons in all.
In word our National safety demands that
the fountains of political powershall be made
pure by the Intelligence and kept pure by
Vigilance. ~ m ,4
1t is-as much the duty of ll;good men to
protect and defend the reputation Of worthy
public Servants as TO detect public rascals.
The prosperity which is made possible in
the South, by Tits great advantages of soil and
climate, will never be realized until every
voter can freely and safely support any party
he pleases.
PARTIES.
Political parties like poets are born not
made, No act Of political mechanics howev-
en- wise can manufacture to order and make a
platform and put party on It which will live
and flourish.
The Flowers that bloom over the garden
wall Of party politics are the sweetest and
most fragrant that bloom in the gardens Of
this world.
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