Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...every good preparatory school shows that the abuse is in no shape necessarily attendant upon the game. We cannot afford to turn out of college men who shrink from physical effort or from a little physical pain. In any republic courage is a prime necessity for the average citizen if he is to be a good citizen; and he needs physical courage no less than moral courage, the courage, that dares as well as the courage that endures, the courage that will fight valiantly alike against the foes of the soul and the foes of the body. Athletics are good...
...what I have to say on this topic can properly be said under the auspices of your Political Club. You here when you graduate will take up many kinds of work; but, there is one work in which all of you should take part simply as good American citizens, and that is the work of self-government. Remember, in the first place, that to take part in the work of government does not in the least mean of necessity to hold office. It means to take an intelligent, disinterested and practical part in the everyday duties of the average citizen...
...achieve results, instead of confining himself exclusively to disparagement of other men who achieve them, he must manage to come to some kind of working agreement with these fellows of his there are times of course when it may be the highest duty of a citizen to stand alone, or practically alone. But if this is a man's normal attitude if normally he is unable to work in combination with a considerable body of his fellows it is safe to set him down as unfit for useful service in a democracy. In popular government results worth having can only...
...gist of Mr. Long's speech was that it is the common, everyday things of life which are most worth while. In speaking of the civic and social duties, of each individual citizen, he said that, practically, the "State" may be considered as an enlargement of the "City," and the "Commonwealth" as an enlargement of the "State." How far the powers of each of these three divisions shall go is a very difficult question, but it must be admitted that a great degree of centralization is necessary to the proper control of this great "Commonwealth...
...orderly, safe, and law-abiding place. As New York is the biggest city in America, its police force should be the best, because the police are the medium through which the ignorant foreign immigrants receive their first impression of American law and government. The Slav of yesterday is the citizen of tomorrow, and it depends upon the police how much he likes his new home...