Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such Congressmen as Abe Lincoln. During the Civil War, Lincoln himself was so reviled that at one point only one Congressman backed his re-election as President. Korea became "Truman's war"-and Ike's path to the White House. In scoffing at Stephen Decatur's maxim, "Our country, right or wrong," G. K. Chesterton echoed many Americans: "It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober...
...Silence gives consent." So runs an ancient maxim of common law, and from that maxim flows a widely applied legal principle: the rule of tacit admission. On the theory that an innocent man would loudly deny a serious charge, the rule holds that a suspect silent in the face of an accusation has tacitly admitted the crime. And such silence can later be introduced at his trial as an indicator of guilt...
Napoleon Bonaparte, something of a master at the game himself, once complained that "all Italians are plunderers." Italian bankers often seem to agree with this ungenerous assessment of their countrymen. "Every citizen," says an old banking maxim, "is a swindler until he produces documents to prove the contrary." Taking that attitude, Italian banks, including those owned by the state, have rarely opened their cash drawers for small personal loans...
...patriarchal hand, guided by a deep Christian faith, a humanist's conviction in the Tightness of democratic ways and a shrewd political gift for manipulating men. He thought out his strategies well in advance, reducing alternatives to their simplest dimensions, and he dealt with problems according to his maxim that "a thick skin is a gift from God." When the German public grumbled about the slowness of Allied decontrol, he replied: "Who do you think...
...unhappy one. What Reston is trying to convey is that with a new approach to reporting foreign affairs, the American people could be better informed about a subject which is presently being handled almost entirely by the President. In a society which depends on the maxim of "the people knowing best," the press must change to fill an increasingly important educational role