The Notes Part 4

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another but let him work diligently & build one for himself thus by example insuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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That man can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I have ever met.

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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.

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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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I must stand with anybody who stands rt.-stnd. with him while he is rt. & part with him when he is wrong. must stand with anybody who stands rt.-stnd. with him while he is rt. & part with him when he is wrong.

[image]Winston Churchill It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

[image]Cicero 44 B.C.-The great affairs of life are not performed by physical strength or activity, or nimbleness of body, but by deliberation, character, expression of opinion. Of these old age is not only not deprived, but as a rule, has them in greater degree.

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

[image]Seneca The foundation of true joy is the conscience.

[image]Pericles A man who takes no interest in public affairs is not a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all. man who takes no interest in public affairs is not a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

[image]Marcus Antonius Look well unto thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.

[image]Confucius The interior man seeks what is right; the inferior one what is profitable.

[image]Arabian Honey In seeking honey expect the sting of bees.

[image]Thomas Macaulay The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

[image]Talmud Who is wise? He who learns from everybody. Who is strong? He who conquers self. Who is rich? He who is satisfied with what he has. Who is honored? He who is honored by his neighbors.

[image]Scotch Ballad I am hurt but I am not slain-I'll lie me down & bleed a while & then I'll fight again. am hurt but I am not slain-I'll lie me down & bleed a while & then I'll fight again.

[image]Aristotle Ed. is the best provision for old age.

[image]Leonard Read Perfect communication pre-supposes the perfect sayer & the perfect listener, neither one of whom ever existed. Worlds apart? Not necessarily-many are just words apart.

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No bad idea is ever overcome by attacking the persons who believe it.

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Do not argue-first present a better idea.

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Honesty is as much abandoned by the theft of a dime as of a dollar.

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Never concede to a friend any more power over the lives of others than you would to your worst enemy.

[image]Poet Schreiner Upon the road which you would travel there is no reward offered. Who goes-goes freely for the great love that is in him. The work is his reward.

[image]Proverbs 20:17 The bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

[image]Ecclesiastes 10:12 The words from a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

[image]Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

[image]Exodus 20:13 (Cap. Punishment) & 21:12 Thou shalt not kill-He that smiteth a man so that he die shall surely be put to death.

[image]Spanish Proverb To reply to an evil word by another taunt is like trying to clean off dirt with mud.

[image]Pascal Thought const.i.tutes the greatness of man.

[image]Anonymous When we are right we credit our judgment & when we are wrong we blame our luck.

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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action; the greatest & sublimest power is often simple patience.

[image]Gov. Jack Williams-Arizona Such things as truth, bravery, Loyalty, Honor, Love, kindness are the stars that hang always in the Heavens of all history-we never quite reach them, but as with the stars that used to guide a mariner to safe harbor, they are there for us to guide our conduct by.

[image]"Wanted," Sonnet by J. G. Holland G.o.d give us men! A time like this demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; men whom the l.u.s.t of office does not kill! Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; men who possess opinions & a will, men who have honor; men who will not lie; men who can stand before a demagogue & d-n his treacherous flatteries without winking; tall men, sun crowned, who live above the fog in public duty & in private thinking. For while the rabble with their thumb-worn creeds, their large professions, & their little deeds mingle in selfish strife, lo freedom weeps, wrong rules the land & waiting justice sleeps.

[image]Anonymous Charity often consists of a generous impulse to give away something we don't want.

[image]Viktor Frankl, Austrian Writer A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him or to an unfinished work will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him or to an unfinished work will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the why why for his existence and will be able to learn the for his existence and will be able to learn the how how.

[image]The Art of Living by Wilfred A. Peterson Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you but on what happens inside of you; it is measured by the spirit in which you meet the problems of life. Happiness is a state of mind. Lincoln once said: "We are as happy as we make up our minds to be." Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do. Happiness comes from putting our hearts in our work & doing it with joy & enthusiasm. Happiness grows out of harmonious relationship with others based on att.i.tudes of good will, tolerance, understanding & love. The master secret of happiness is to meet the challenge of each new day with the serene faith that "all things work together for good them that love G.o.d."

[image]From "Force 20 from Navarone," Alistair Maclean When all things are lost & there is no hope left, there is always somewhere in this world one man you can turn to. There may be only only one man. More often than not, there is only one man. But that one man is always there. Or so they say. one man. More often than not, there is only one man. But that one man is always there. Or so they say.

[image]Maxwell Anderson Speaking at Rutgers U., 1941 The purpose of the theatre is to find & hold up to our regard what is admirable in the human race. The theatrical profession may protest as much as it likes, the theologians may protest and the majority of those who see our plays would probably be amazed to hear it, but the theatre is a religious inst.i.tution-devoted entirely to the exaltation of the spirit of man. It is an attempt to justify not the ways of G.o.d to man but the ways of man to himself. It is an attempt to prove that man has a dignity & and a destiny, that his life is worth living, that he is not purely animal & without purpose. There is no doubt in my mind that our theatre, instead of being as the evangelical ministers used to believe the gateway to h-l, is as much of a worship as the theatre of the Greeks and has exactly the same meaning in our lives The plays that please most and run longest in these sin-haunted alleys (of Broadway) are representative of human loyalty, courage, love that purges the soul, grief that enn.o.bles The great plays of the world ... teach one & all that an evil action revenges itself upon the doer. "Antigone" & "Hamlet" & 10,000 modern plays argue that injustice is corrosive & will eat the heart out of him who practices it. a.n.a.lyze any play you please which has survived the test of continued favor & you will find a moral or a rule of social conduct or a rule of thumb which the race has considered valuable enough to learn & pa.s.s along. There have been critics who held that the theatre was central among the arts because it is a synthesis of all of them. Now I confess that the theatre appears to me to be the central art-but for a different reason. It does bring together all the arts of a number of them together in a communal religious service. Any other art practiced separately can be either moral or amoral, religious or pagan, affirmative or despairing. But when they come together in the theatre they must affirm, they cannot be detached, they cannot deny. It is as if poetry, music, narration, dancing and the mimetic arts were bits & pieces of theatrical art, stripped away to function alone and rudderless without the moral compulsion of the theatre.

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And now I must give a definition of what seems to me morally sound. If an artist believes that there is good & that there is evil, and in his work favors what seems to him good and expects the ultimate victory for it, then he is morally sound. If he does not believe in the existence of good & evil, or if believing in them, he asks or even antic.i.p.ates the triumph of evil, he is morally unsound. To some artists the present good may seem evil & the present evil good. That has happened often in the case of a poet or prophet. A playwright cannot run so far ahead of his audience, for he must find a common denominator of his belief in his own generation & even the greatest, the loftiest, must say something which his age can understand. In brief I have found my religion in the theatre where I least expected to find it, & where few will credit that it exists. But it is there, & any man among you who tries to write plays will find himself serving it, if only because he can succeed in no other way. He will discover, if he works through his apprenticeship that the theatre is the central artistic symbol of the struggle of good & evil within men. Its teaching is that the struggle is eternal & unremitting, that the forces which tend to drag men down are always present, always ready to attack, that the forces which make for good cannot sleep through a night without danger.

[image]M. Anderson Began The Above Lecture With These Words The story of a play must be the story of what happens within the mind or heart of a man or woman. It cannot deal primarily with external events. The external events are only symbols of what goes on within... Excellence on stage is always moral excellence. A struggle on the part of a hero to better his material circ.u.mstances is of not interest in a play unless his character is somehow tried in the fire, & unless he comes out of his trial a better man.

[image]Gilbert K. Chesterton Loving means to love that which is unlovable or it is not virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable or it is no virtue at all; faith means believing in the unbelievable or it is no virtue at all. And to hope means hoping when things are hopeless or it is no virtue at all.

[image]Judge Learned Hand Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.

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Nothing which is morally wrong can ever be politically right.

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One way to settle a disagreement is on the basis of what is right not who is right.

[image]Seneca He who knows no ports to sail for finds no winds favorable.

[image]George Washington Let us raise a standard to which the wise & honest can repair.

[image]Wendell Willkie Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows when it is destroyed where or when man will find its protective warmth again.

[image]Marie Montessori When asked why she didn't reply to her critics replied that if she were climbing a ladder & a dog came yapping at her heels she would have 2 choices. Either she could stop & kick the dog or she could continue to climb the ladder. She preferred to climb.

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ON POLITICAL THEATER.

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[image]Rene Wormser, Council for House Spec. Committee on Tax Exempt Foundation Research & experimental stations were established at selected U's, notably Columbia, Stanford, & Chi. Here some of the worst mischief in recent ed. was born. In these Rockefeller & Carnegies established vineyards worked many of the princ.i.p.al characters in the story of suborning or Am. ed. Here foundations nurtured some of the most ardent academic advocates of upsetting the Am. system & supplanting it with a Socialist state. Whatever its earlier origins or manifestations there is little doubt that the radical movement in ed. was accelerated by an organized Socialist movement in the U.S.

[image]Jack Henning, Exec. California AFL-CIO, Re. R.R.CGOV Within the past 2 yrs. Gov R. has signed bills increasing soc. insurance benefits for injured and unemployed Calif. workers by more than $266 mil. No Gov. R or D in the history of Calif. has ever done anything like that.

[image]Sen. McGovern, Inconsistencies of A Liberal Wash. Post 5/17/72-I have sought not to whip up emotions. There is plenty of anger & tension without our leaders adding to it. I think a conciliatory approach is needed.

Cand. for Pres. McGovernWash. Riots-May '71-Well if I were Pres. there wouldn't be demonstrating like that. Those people would be having dinner in the W.H. instead of protesting outside.

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N.Y. Times-3/19/72-But Henry Jackson destroyed whatever chance he had of becoming the Dem. nominee by embracing racialism in the anti-bussing campaign.

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United Press 4/7/72-Thieu is a corrupt dictator who jails opponents. A despicable creature who doesn't merit the life of a single Am. soldier or for that matter a simple Vietnamese.

Sen. McGovern-When It Was LBJ's WarI support the strafing ordered by Pres. Johnson because I agree when our forces are attacked & our interests are under fire we have to respond with appropriate retaliation.

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N. Vietnam can't benefit anymore than S. Vietnam from a prolonged conflict. I would hope that we would wage such a conflict rather than surrender the area to communism.

A.P. 4/16/72Pres. Nixon has descended to a new level of barbarism & foolhardiness to save his own face and prop up the corrupt regime of Thieu.Speech Cath. U. 4/20/72I think the re-election of Pres. Nixon would be an open hunting right for this man to give in to all his impulses for a major war against the people of Indo-China.6/29/72 Interview with A.P. Gregg HerringtonI've said many times that the Nixon bombing policy on Indo-China is the most barbaric action that any country has committed since Hitler's efforts to exterminate the Jews in Germany in the 30s.L.A. Times 8/30/72-Re: Reducing Our U.N. Forces by 12,000Mr. Nixon's policy threatens the men we have remaining there with a grave & growing threat of annihilation. I want to be blunt about it-Nixon's playing pols. with the lives of Am. soldiers & with Am. prisoners rotting in their cells in Hanoi. He's putting his own pol. selfish interests ahead of the W.F. of those young Ams. & of the taxpayers of this country who are bearing the burden."Life" 7/7/72 On Death Of J. Edgar HooverI could feel nothing but relief that he was no longer a pub. servant.P. 93 Mcgovern's Biog.I don't know how Karl Mundt felt about me but I know I hated his guts. I hated him so much I lost my balance.Cong. Record Sept. 8 1964-P. 21690I regard Mr. Goldwater as the most unstable, radical & extremist ever to run for the presidency in either pol. party.

[image]Tax Law Sec. 351(e)(1) Internal Revenue Code-deals with collapsible corps.-The 1st sentence contains 551 words (Since '76 tax reform act).

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Last sentence of sec. 509(a)(5) of the Code-"For purposes of paragraph 3 an org. described in par. 2 shall be deemed to include an org. described in Section 501(c) 4, 5, or 6 which would be described in par. 2 if it were an org. described in sec. 501(c)(3).

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Inc. tax law was pa.s.sed in 1914. Since then Dems. have cut the tax once. Repubs. have cut it 14 times. I used this in a speech in 1978. A '78 poll had shown 95% of people rated inflat. as our biggest problem. 81% put high cost of govt. & taxes 2nd. In some poll a majority said Dems. are better at cutting taxes than Republicans.

[image]Norman Thomas Our Dem. friends are too Utopian, they promise too much to everyone too easily. Ind. News. Oct. 1960.

[image]Gov. E. Warren, 1948 Large counties are far more important in the life of our state than their population bears to the entire pop. of the st. It is for this reason that I have never been in favor of re-distributing representation in our Sen. on a strictly population basis.

[image]Oct. 1957, "Foreign Affairs"

Sen. J. F. Kennedy urged that we disengage from European conservatives & establish closer liaison with the soc. forces. He declared-"The age of Adenauer is over."

[image]Dr. John Hannah, Pres. Michigan St.

Speaks out for "Nat. direction of education as a primary instrument of nat. policy."

[image]Mr. H. Thomas James, School of Ed. Stanford U.

As the states have denied, 1st to the family, & then to local communities, the right to make decision on ed. contrary to staff defined policy, so the nation may be expected to deny the states the right to make decisions on educational policy that are not in accord with the emerging national policy for ed emerging national policy for ed.

[image]Graham Barden (Recently) Chairman, House Ed. & Labor Comm.

Purpose of Fed. aid bill of '57 was to centralize power over our school system here in Wash. where it is easier to apply concentrated pressure.

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HUMOR.

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There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, d-m lies, & statistics.

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Those Congressmen who worried about being bugged by the FBI-you'd think they'd be glad someone was listening to them.