Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each year put upon the statute books of our country thousands upon thousands of different enactments undertaking to regulate and control our conduct. . . . I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. It is a maxim of our institutions that the Government does not make the people, but the people make the Government...
...Hudson Maxim, famed inventor: "At the WOR broadcasting station in Newark, I 'began a 3,000-word address in which reference was made to certain ramifications of the 18th Amendment. When I had finished talking (after 15 minutes), it was explained to me that the only part of my address that had been heard over the country was the initial 2½ minutes. WOR-officials claimed that 'mechanical interference in transmission' had been experienced. Said I in a press interview: 'The WOR people did an injustice to me. My opinion is that they objected...
...After declaring that the best way of ensuring peace was to prepare for peace and denouncing the maxim of "Trust in God and keep your powder dry," William Leach, Under Secretary of State for Air, announced that the Government would carry on its predecessor's policy of expanding the Air Force. "Shame!" cried a Labor member. Mr. Leach said that what was needed were "new excavations to raise the lid from the sarcophagus of the New Testament." Major General J. E. B. Seely (Liberal) retorted: "If the Empire is to be defended by Sermons on the Mount, God help...
...ordinary person, it is said, is judged not so much by what he is as by what he does. This maxim applies also to the University Press, for it is to be judged more by what it publishes than by any strict adherence to the high purpose of its founders. It was established, more or less, for the publication of books of a scholastic nature which would not ordinarily find a publisher--or maybe a market. If it had clung closely to this stipulation it might have soon found itself in the need of a patron such as are sought...
...celebrated David Crockett chose for his motto the now familiar maxim; be sure you are right, then go ahead. And despite its triteness this slogan might well adorn the banners of educational reformers. But the question of just what is right is distressingly difficult. As usual the most apparent aspects of the problem have been attacked first, with the result that evils of the American educational system have been attributed almost solely to defects in the methods of collegiate instruction. Dean West of the Princeton Graduate College has, however, broached a problem which seems to pierce directly to the heart...