Word: crowd
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...formed an enthusiastic escort up Tremjont street from the Hotel Touraine. The governor's speech was strikingly virile and vigorous and was constantly interrupted by enthusiastic cheering. Mr. Hughes said that this escort was an improvement on his last occasion of being serenaded in Albany when the crowd sang "So Long Charley, Don't You Never Come Back Home!" After speaking of his pleasure of being able to address such a crowd, he said that any one who could look into such faces and have any fear for the country's future was a pessimist for who there was absolutely...
...back to old Athens, he would not miss a chance to have his say in the public square. The editorial column of a great newspaper is the public square of today. The man who talks in that column has the opportunity of the orator that addressed the ancient Athenian crowd...
...leader must be an ordinary man, a man of the crowd. Brilliancy is one of the most dangerous gifts for one who is destined for leadership, and can be useful only when it is subordinated to the needs of the crowd. The people do not exist for the leader, but the leader for the people...
...speaking of vocation, he said that a man who has gained this sense must guard against letting it separate him from the crowd: his first duty must be to show other men that they too have a call. That great failure in leadership, Napoleon Bonaparte, had the fault that he saw only his own star of destiny, and there came a time when other men failed to see that star. Men of vocation, to use their power must fit in with other men of vocation. The alliance of Wash- ington and Hamilton: of Lincoln with the members of his cabinet...
...other hand, the best thing about the human will is its power of triumphing over obstacles and difficulties that are constantly increasing. To the crowd it seems that things must ever remain as they are; it is the part of the leader to see things as they ought to be. The fear of change makes the ordinary man draw back-the fear of being thought eccentric, or of being thrust into obscurity by the crowd. It is the Christian watchword that responsibility rests on the individual. Wills have been given us-let us use them. Fate, heredity, chance,-these...