Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-12
COOLIDGE APHoRisMs
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and less of the show window in poll
tics.
Politics is not an end but a means,
not product but process; it is the
art of government and,
Like other values, it has counter
feits, upon which so much emphasis
has been placed as to obscure the orig
inal
Every native-born American is poten
TALLY President.
There are. quacks, shysters, and
charlatans among politicians, doctors,
and lawyers, but they are not repre-
sentative, For
Our public men, as a class, are in
spired by honorable and patriotic mo-
tives, DESTROYS only of faithful execu-
ton of their trust.
Public men must expect criticism
and endure false charges.
Public business is transacted on a
higher plane than private.
In office holding only the man of
sympathy and deep understanding of
his fellow men can meet with much
success. Yet
Office holding is the incidental; the
standard of citizenship is the essential
Every man is a politician, whether
he will or no, for government does not
rest upon the opinions of men but
upon their actions.
The development of the State has
ever been from anarchy through des-
potism, through oligarchy. broadened
into democracy, and ending in repre-
sentative government based upon uni
versal suffrage. But many nations
have fallen along the way.
Our public schools have made edu.
cation possible for all and ignorance a
disgrace.
Those with liberal culture ought to
be the leaders in maintaining the
standards of citizenship, or their edu-
cation is a failure.
My college mates were moved with
serious purpose; he who had less
lacked place among them.
Education must give not only power
but direction; it must minister to the
whole man or it fails.
Science, however important, does
not provide a civilization that can
stand without classical ideals.
The classic of all classics is the
Bible.
The discomfort in modern industry
is the result of too narrow outlook.
For
It is far from enough to teach our
citizens vocation; our industrial sys-
tenn will break down unless it is hui
manized
1t is not well if the great diversity
of modern learning has made the
truth SO little of novelty that it
lacks all reverence.
We have lost our reverence for the
profession of teaching and bestowed it
upon the profession Of acquiring.
The profession of teaching has come
down to us with sanction of anti
guilty greater than all else.
Inspiration always comes from
above, and diffusion of learning radi-
ates down from the university.
The individual may not require the
higher institutions of learning, but So
ciety does. For
Without higher education civiliza-
ton, as we know it, would fall from
mankind in night.
Let there be purpose in all legis-
lation to recognize the right of man
to be well born, well nurtured, well
educated, we'll employed, and well
paid
When membership in legislature
is sought as means of livelihood,
legislation will pass from public fun
ction to a private enterprise. For
The legislator will succeed not by
indulging himself but by denying him.
self.
Democracy is not denial of the
divine right of kings, but it adds to it
the divine right of all men.
Democracy not only ennobled man,
but it has ennobled industry. For we
are working toward the day
When equal honor shall fall to equal
endeavor, whether it be exhibited in
the office or in the shop.
The protection Of the individual
lies at the basis of Anglo-Saxon liber-
ty.