Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ingredients of every sound human enterprise are the same: a healthy ideal or object; leadership; a competent staff; and money. All the great realities of life--such as the laws of health--are simple. That is not to say that they are easy to carry out. No great thing is easy of accomplishment. There is no such thing as something for nothing--in the long run. Those who are inspired to serve mankind must pay toll in duty and self-sacrifice. Their path is like the course of true love of which Shakespeare said...
Those who undertake to promote throughout the world the spirit of sportsmanship--fair play for all and a sporting chance for the underdog--must be prepared to face the difficulties. But they start with the first ingredient of successful organization--a sound ideal. There can be no dispute about that. We next come to leadership, a very important factor in any case, but of vital consequence in a movement designed to become world-wide. And in this connection I would appeal with all the earnestness at my command to youth to see that it is worthily repre- sented...
Given a sound ideal and leadership the other two ingredients of successful organization--a competent staff and money--will follow as a matter of course. Some people have an idea that money is the all-important thing. It is necessary and must be forthcoming but all kinds of money in barrels is useless without the other three ingredients. And, as I have said, it will materialize automatically in the train of the other ingredients. No sound cause, well led, ever lacked for money...
...youth step on the gas and set a-rolling the bus destined to carry the spirit of sportsmanship throughout the world. There is no finer ideal for the spirit of sportsmanship is the essential oil of the Sermon on the Mount. There is plenty of room on the bus for all, working-men, millionaires, ordinary folks, all ages, both sexes, for sport is the most democratic thing--the only truly democratic thing--in the world...
Besides, in the present instance, the experiment was obviously not conducted with the proper attention to detail. The prisoner was a man of mature years, and was doubtless confirmed in crime; a long record of misdeeds should have suggested to the meanest intelligence that he was not the ideal type for a test case. Also, being familiar with police methods, he may have surmised that he was being invited into a trap; and acting on the theory that he was being given rope with which to hang himself, he determined no doubt that his moral demise should at least...