Word: citizen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this object--now in excess of $10,000. They leave its administration entirely to the discretion of the University, imposing no conditions other than that the income be used in providing for the delivery and publication of lectures upon "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen," or upon some part of that subject, such lectures to be called "The Godkin Lectures" and of which there shall be at least one in every year...
...society, have been constituted into a juvenile republic, making their own laws, having their own courts, carrying on their own industries--in fact, performing almost all the functions of a complete society. The child finds himself, not in a reform school, but in a community where he, as a citizen, is responsible for his own well-being...
...mandatory, unless he had received by statute some especial discretionary power with regard to it. He then quoted from a speech of Daniel Webster in 1832, showing that an executive officer has no more license to construe the laws which he is to enforce than a private citizen whose only duty is to obey them, and further developed the specific evils which would result from a non-enforcement of this particular law. In establishing this position, he showed that non-enforcement of the excise law would result in breeding disrespect for law in general among the citizens. He then brought...
...suppress it, we must do more, we must cure it. This can be done only by education -- by teaching the people that government is a necessity, that our government is the best form of government ever devised, and that they must make it so good that every citizen will die, if necessary, to preserve its blessings to posterity...
Bookman: "President Hadley's 'The Education of an American Citizen,' and Jacob A. Riis's 'The Making of an American'," by H. Hapgood '92; "Maurice Hewlett's 'New Canterbury Tales'," by F. T. Cooper '86; "Drama of the Month," by N. Hapgood...