The Notes Part 2

[image]Hilaire Belloc We sit by & watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic invasion of our old cert.i.tudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large & awful faces from beyond; and on these faces there is no smile.

[image]Daniel Webster I sought for the greatness of Am. in her commodious harbors & her ample rivers & it was not there. In her fertile fields & boundless prairies & it was not there. In her rich mines & her vast world commerce & it was not there. Not until I went to the churches of Am. & heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and her power. Am. is great because she is good & if Am. ever ceases to be good Am. will cease to be great. sought for the greatness of Am. in her commodious harbors & her ample rivers & it was not there. In her fertile fields & boundless prairies & it was not there. In her rich mines & her vast world commerce & it was not there. Not until I went to the churches of Am. & heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and her power. Am. is great because she is good & if Am. ever ceases to be good Am. will cease to be great.

[image]Goethe Letter to Eckerman, 1828 The truth must be repeated again & again because error is constantly being preached round about us. And not only by isolated individuals but by the majority. In the newspapers & encyclopedias, in the schools and Universities everywhere error is dominant, securely & comfortable ensconced in pub. opinion which is on its side.

[image]Chinese Proverb, 400 B.C.

When the music of a nation becomes fast, wild & discordant it shows the nation is in confusion.

[image]Abba Eban History shows that men & nations behave reasonably only when they have exhausted all other alternatives.

[image]Alexander Hamilton It will be of little avail to the people that laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood: if they be repealed or revised before the are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.

[image]Thomas Jefferson, 1810 A strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the highest duties of a good citizen but it is not the highest. The law of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property & all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means. strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the highest duties of a good citizen but it is not the highest. The law of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property & all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

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The lottery is a wonderful thing; it lays the taxation only on the willing.

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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical.

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If we can prevent govt. from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of taking care of them-they must become happy.

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The boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next & the sole guardian of the principles we deliver over to them.

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It is in the natural course of events that liberty recedes & govt. grows.

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I never considered a dif. of opinion in pols. in religion, in phil. as cause for withdrawing from a friend. never considered a dif. of opinion in pols. in religion, in phil. as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

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The bulk of mankind are school boys through life. Ed. is the true corrective of abuses of const. power.

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The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own govt.

[image]George Was.h.i.+ngton It is not consistent with reason or justice to expect that one set of men should make a sacrifice of property, domestic ease & happiness encounter the rigid of the field, the perils & vicissitudes of war to obtain these blessings which every citizen will enjoy on common with them without some compensation.

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If any body of people are allowed to go unpunished to rise & disobey any law, all law & order would soon vanish.

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We must never parley or haggle with sedition, treason or lawlessness but must strike a blow that cannot be parried & at once.

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Freedom from want must never be interpreted as freedom from the necessity to struggle.

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To Lafayette 1791: The tumultuous populace of the large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence frustrated for all time all pub. authority & its consequences are sometimes extensive & terrible.

[image]Alan C. Brownfield Ed. which trains in skills but does not teach values is deficient. Its emphasis today all too often does not seek to make the individual a thinking person but seeks to condition him to the generally accepted view of the common good.

[image]C. S. Lewis The older ed. was a kind of propagation-men transmitted manhood to man-the new is merely propaganda.

[image]Ortega Y. Ga.s.set Civilization is not self supporting-it is artificial and requires the artist or the artisan. If you want to make use of the advantages of civilization but are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilization-you are done.

[image]Edmund Burke It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the pub. to be the most anxious for its welfare.

[image]Abe Lincoln Labor was prior to capitalism but property is the fruit of labor. Prop. is desirable & is a positive good to the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich & hence is just encouragement to industry & enterprise.

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A man may be loyal to his govt. & still be opposed to the peculiar prins. & practices of the admin. in power. man may be loyal to his govt. & still be opposed to the peculiar prins. & practices of the admin. in power.

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With public sentiment behind you, anything is possible. Without it, nothing is possible. Therefore, he who influences public sentiment performs a vastly more significant act than he who simply meets statutes.

[image]Winston Churchill The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world we learn we are spirits not animals. There is something going on in time & s.p.a.ce & beyond time & s.p.a.ce which whether we like it or not spells duty.

[image]F.D.R. on Public Employee Strikes I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organizations of govt. employees. A strike of pub. emps. manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of govt. until their demands are satisfied. Such action looking toward the paralysis of govt. by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable & intolerable. want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organizations of govt. employees. A strike of pub. emps. manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of govt. until their demands are satisfied. Such action looking toward the paralysis of govt. by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable & intolerable.

[image]J.F.K.

We are in danger of losing something solid at the core. We are losing that pilgrim & pioneer spirit of initiative and independence-that old-fas.h.i.+oned Spartan devotion to duty, honor & country.

[image]Ibn Khaldoun (Moslem Phil. 14th Century) At the beginning of the dynasty taxation yields a large revenue from small a.s.sessments. At the end of the Dynasty taxation yields a small revenue from large a.s.sessments.

[image]Cicero A nation can survive its fools & even the ambitious but it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in an accent familiar to his victims & wears their face & their garments ... he rots the soul of the nation. He works secretly & unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. nation can survive its fools & even the ambitious but it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in an accent familiar to his victims & wears their face & their garments ... he rots the soul of the nation. He works secretly & unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.

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Had there not been older men to undo the damage done by the young, there would be no states.

[image]Aspasia, Friend of Socrates, 429 B.C.

I am baffled by Sparta, by its ugliness, its bigotry, its single minded dedication to turning out citizens who are anonymous efficient instruments of war. They are hemmed in by prejudice, allowed no contact with the outside world, have no choice but to believe what they are told. am baffled by Sparta, by its ugliness, its bigotry, its single minded dedication to turning out citizens who are anonymous efficient instruments of war. They are hemmed in by prejudice, allowed no contact with the outside world, have no choice but to believe what they are told.

[image]William Penn If men be good govt. cannot then be bad.

[image]Arnold Toynbee Hist. is the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs & the thunder of hobnail boots coming up.

[image]Bastiat Addressing National a.s.sembly-France, 12/12/1849 When the people are encouraged to turn to govt. to settle all of their problems for them the basis of revolutions is thereby established. For then the people expect the govt. to provide them with all the material things they want. And when these things are not forthcoming they resort to violence to get them & why not since the govt. itself has told them that these responsibilities belong to govt. rather than to them? I am convinced that the revolution would not be possible, if the only relations.h.i.+p between govt. & the people was to guaranty them their liberty & security.

[image]Bastiat People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of govt. is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.

[image]Founder Salvation Army-William Booth, At 83 & Nearly Blind While women weep as they do now-I'll fight. While little children go hungry as they do now-I'll fight. While there is a poor lost girl upon the street-I'll fight. While there yet remains one dark soul without the light of G.o.d I'll fight. I'll fight to the very end.

[image]Dr. James Conant The greater proportion of our youth who attend private schools the greater the threat to our Dem. Unity.

[image]National Ed. a.s.sociation 1934 Report A dying laissez-faire must be completely destroyed and all of us including the owners must be subjected to a large degree of social control. dying laissez-faire must be completely destroyed and all of us including the owners must be subjected to a large degree of social control.

[image]Yrs. Ago John D. Rockefeller Put His a.s.st. Fred Gates in Charge of His Tax Free Ed. Board. Paper No. 1 Said: In our dreams we have limitless resources & the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions fade from our minds & unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful & responsive rural folk.

[image]Samuel Gompers Doing for people what they can & ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last a.n.a.lysis the welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy for social morality social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busy bodies & professional morals experts in their pads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under the pretense of social welfare. which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busy bodies & professional morals experts in their pads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under the pretense of social welfare.

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The company that doesn't make a profit is the enemy of the working man.

[image]U.S. National Labor Paper The time has come to put into effect a single integrated Fed. system guaranteeing cradle to grave security against the hazards of illness, disability, work injury & old age.

[image]Adolph Hitler We shall banish want, we shall banish fear. The essence of National Socialism is human welfare rooted in a fuller life for every German from childhood to old age.

[image]Dr. Alex Fraser Tytler on Athens Fall 2000 Years Ago A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of govt. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the pub. treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result the democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy always to be followed by a dictators.h.i.+p. democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of govt. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the pub. treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result the democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy always to be followed by a dictators.h.i.+p.

[image]Leonard Read Regardless of theoretical pretentions, socialism is nothing but the application of dictatorial power.

[image]Anonymous In the late 60's, a group of drs. formed an org. to ed. people about Socialized medicine. The I.R.S. ruled-"opposing socialism in the med. or other segments of the economoy or supporting the principles of individual lib. & freedom of the individual in the med. profession or elsewhere are not in our opinion per se educational functions or objectives & you are not ent.i.tled to take deductions from your Fed. income tax."

[image]Poem The snow was blowing out of doors-the drifts were piling high, and I could see the pedestrians as they were pa.s.sing by. The faces of my Irish friends came dimly through the gla.s.s, as they trudged the icy streets to wors.h.i.+p at their ma.s.s. I watched a while, went back to bed and cuddled safe & sound as they braved those icy blasts on a sacred duty bound. I envy them their strength of heart, the faith that they renew, but on an ice cold Sunday morn it's good to be a Jew.

[image]Poem "Teacher"-Clark Mollenhoff You are the molders of their dreams-the G.o.ds who build or crush their young beliefs of Rt. or Wrong. You are the spark that sets aflame the poet's hand or lights the flame of some great singer's song. You are the G.o.d of the young-the very young. You are the guardians of a million dreams. Your every smile or frown can heal or pierce a heart. Yours are 100 lives-1000 lives. Yours the pride of loving them, the sorrow too. Your patient work, your touch make you the G.o.d of hope-that fills their souls with dreams-to make those dreams come true.

[image]Lord Moulton True civilization is measured by the extent of obedience to the unenforceable.

[image]2nd Thessalonians 3:10 If anyone does not want to work then he should not eat either.

[image]Acts 19:32 Some therefore cried one thing & some another for the a.s.sembly was confused; & the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.

[image]Bible Judges 9-Parable The Trees went forth to anoint a King over themselves. The olive tree, the fig tree, the vine-all declined to abandon their productive pursuits to become a King. So the trees then turned to the bramble and the bramble accepted.

[image]Dr. Goebbels Whoever can conquer the street will conquer the state one day for every form of power politics & any dictatorially run state has its roots in the street. We cannot have enough of public demonstrations for that is far & away the most emphatic way of demonstrating ones will to govern. It means a sight more than elec. statistics. When we can see our men thousands of them marching up & down the streets that is nothing short of mobilization for power.

[image]Judge Learned Hand There is nothing sinister in so arranging ones affairs as to keep taxes just as low as possible. n.o.body owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands. Taxes are enforced exactions not vol. contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.

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Anyone may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible, he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase increase one's taxes. one's taxes.

[image]J. Edgar Hoover The cure for crime is not the electric chair but the high chair.

[image]Paul McCracken It is interesting to speculate what would happen if a delegation from the Economic Dept. of U. of Outer s.p.a.ce were asked to fly around this planet & see if they could sort out the planned & unplanned economies. They would in fact probably get them sorted out; but they might as well have the labels on the 2 lists reversed. Of course the so-called unplanned economies aren't unplanned at all. They rely on an extremely sophisticated system of planning reflected in the mechanisms of inst.i.tutions of the market to organize ec. activity & to generate material progress.

[image]Prof. Geo. Sternlieb The billions of $ that are being spent on the urban poor by all levels of govt. go mainly to support a growing W.F. bureaucracy of teacher-aides, youth workers, clerks, supervisors, key punchers, & people's lawyers. The bureauc. is sustained by the plight of the poor, the threat of the poor, the misery of the poor, but it yields little in the way of loaves & fishes to the poor.

[image]John Ramsay McCulloch, Scotch Ec., More-100 Years Ago The moment you abandon the cardinal principle of extracting from all individuals the same proportion of their income or their property you are at sea without rudder or compa.s.s & there is no amount of injustice or folly you may not commit.

[image]A Florida Bus Attendant-Ralph Bradford Human society is built & can only be built upon a foundation of citizens.h.i.+p accountability. The strength of a nation is not its legal machinery, but the moral stamina & courage of its people. The law is but the codification of their conscience. There are not enough laws & never will be, to keep a society stable if its members no longer will it. There are not enough policemen, courts, judges or prisons, nor ever can be to prevent the death of a civilization whose people no longer care. Law enforcement is for the criminal few; it collapses if it must be enforced against the many. When the sense of personal accountability is no longer present in majority strength, then no legal device known to man can hold the society together. Freedom is a timely torch blazing in the dark Freedom is a timely torch blazing in the dark.

[image]Herbert Spencer, Essay, Self-Defense and Paternalism Of the pauper-the more you a.s.sist him the more he wants. Of the busy man the more he has to do the more he can do. A whole nation must be so-that just in proportion as its members are little helped by extraneous power they will become self helping and in proportion as they are much helped they will become helpless.

[image]Hiram Johnson, 1910, Los Angeles In our city we have drunk the dregs of the cup of infamy; we have been betrayed by pub. officials & sold out by those we trusted. But in our city we have never had anyone so vicious, so venomous, so putrescent or so vile as Harrison Gray Otis of the L.A. Times. The one blot on the escutcheon of L.A.-the bar sinister upon your city is Harrison Gray Otis of the L.A. Times. There he sits in senile dementia, with gangrene heart & rotting brain, grimacing at our every attempt at reform & chattering away in impotent rage while he goes down to his foul grave in snarling infamy.

[image]Will Rogers You are sentenced to prison as long as it's made comfortable for you & your desire to remain. In checking out let the warden know, so he will know how many there will be for supper.

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Even when you make out a tax return on the level you don't know if you are a crook or a martyr.

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Every time a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity. He's writing so endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he hadn't really said anything, that's what makes it hard to explain.

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The minute you read something & you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then if you give it to another lawyer to read & he don't know just what it means then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and its plain & understandable only one way it was written by a non-lawyer.

[image]Norman Thomas Socialism is a scare word to many but it has a high degree of acceptance by people who hotly deny it. Nov.21 1957, N.Y. Times (could be '54).

[image]Thomas Jefferson I place economy among the 1st & most important virtues, & public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debt we must be taxed in our meat & drink, in our necessities & in our comforts, in our labor & amus.e.m.e.nts. If we can prevent the govt. from wasting the labor of the people place economy among the 1st & most important virtues, & public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debt we must be taxed in our meat & drink, in our necessities & in our comforts, in our labor & amus.e.m.e.nts. If we can prevent the govt. from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

[image]Samuel Gompers Only resentment is aroused & the end is not gained. Only thru moral suasion & appeal to men's reason can a movement succeed.

[image]Lord Macaulay to Hon. H. S. Randall-N.Y. (Grandson, Thom. Jeff.), May 23 1857 As I said before, when society has entered on this downward progress either civilization or lib. must perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of govt. with a strong hand, or your rep. will be fearfully plundered & laid waste by barbarians in the 20th century as the Roman emp. was in the 5th; with this diff., that the Huns & vandals who ravaged the Roman Emp. came from without & that your Huns & vandals will be engendered form within your country by your own inst.i.tutions.

[image]Poem His horse went dead & his mule went lame,And he lost 6 cows in the poker game.Then a hurricane came on a summer's dayAnd blew the house where he lived awayAn earthquake came when that was goneAnd swallowed the land the house stood onAnd then the tax collector came around& charged him up with the hole in the ground.

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ON RELIGION.