Word: preachments
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With many a pear-shaped preachment, Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins has built a reputation as a civil rights statesman, won favorable mention as a Southern moderate who might do nicely as a Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1960. But Collins' practice falls far short of his preachment: not once during his three years as Governor has he proposed even a token program for admitting Negro children to white classrooms in Florida's 100%-segregated public school system...
...contended Ohio's James Middleton Cox, "than an invertebrate publisher." Stocky, round-faced Jim Cox was one of the higher vertebrates in a generation of publishers that included such well-spined warriors as William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and Colonel Robert McCormick. As a journalist, he practiced his preachment that newspapers "should tell the truth as only intellectual honesty can discern the truth." As a politician, Democrat Cox was also notable for intellectual honesty. And he almost achieved the classic American cycle: born on a log-cabin farm, he got to be a Congressman and Ohio's governor...
...revelations from Yalta again remind me of Christ's prophetic pronouncement: ". . . Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy" . . . And F.D.R.'s pious preachment: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity (love), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal...
...principles, especially economic principles, are much better taught by practice than by preachment. The failure of the U.S. to develop a world economic policy is twofold: 1) it has not enunciated clearly and in relation to world problems the principles of its own success and 2) it has not realized these principles in concrete actions of international business. The failure in practice has been especially severe. Looked at from inside, the U.S. economy clearly expresses the lessons of private initiative and free competitive markets. Looked at from outside, the U.S. presents a contrary and dangerously misleading example, e.g., tariff walls...
...policymakers have not yet found their way around in the newer considerations affecting trade policy. The result tends to be a lot of free-trade preachment and a considerable amount of restriction in practice. Another and more serious result is that the U.S., confused as to its own world-trade goals, is not able to present to other nations proposals for a clear and consistent international-trade policy...