 Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter....  The World's Work - Strana 3761920Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Calvin Coolidge - 1924 - 402 str.
...the oft-quoted words from his speech as president of the Massachusetts State Senate, January 7, 1914: "Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science....to be as reactionary as the multiplication table." The terms "conservative" and "progressive" are comparative. It is not easy to establish a 116 precise... | |
 | William Allen White - 1925 - 304 str.
...serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a standpatter, but don't I be a standpatter. Expect to be called a demagogue,...administration a chance to catch up with legislation." In the governor's office at Boston in 1919, the President might have paid a little more attention to... | |
 | 1923 - 772 str.
...a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagog, but don't be a demagog. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science....administration a chance to catch up with legislation. We need a broader, firmer, deeper faith in the people — a faith that men desire to do right, that... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 str.
...Miscellaneous Essays, vol. 6 (vol. 29 of The Works of Thomas Carlyle), p. 455 (1899, reprinted 1969). 2025 Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights...administration a chance to catch up with legislation. CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech to the Massachusetts state Senate on being elected its president, Boston, Massachusetts,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 str.
...blessings of organized government, and nowhere can those functions more properly be termed self-government. Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights...administration a chance to catch up with legislation. We need a broader, firmer, deeper faith in the people — a faith that men desire to do right, that... | |
 | D. V. ரங்கராஜன் - 2003 - 554 str.
...A rolling stone gathers no moss. 40. Storm 2717. Calm before the storm. 41. Strength - ueoli 2718. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Coleridge 2719. Strength does not come from physical capacity. it comes from an indomitable will.... | |
 | William Safire - 2004 - 1168 str.
...organized government, and nowhere can those functions more properly be termed self-government. ter, but don't be a standpatter. Expect to be called a...administration a chance to catch up with legislation. We need a broader, firmer, deeper faith in the people — a faith that men desire to do right, that... | |
 | Suzette Lovely - 2004 - 178 str.
...group of sailors, principals can rest assured they'll return to shore safely. 6 Keeping Good Leaders Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. —Calvin Coolidge As the Industrial Revolution swept across the Atlantic near the turn of the 20th... | |
 | Michael Crane - 2004 - 652 str.
...Winston Churchill HL Mencken "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking." H "Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." Calvin Coolidge "Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes." Washington Irving "Here, then,... | |
 | Joan F. Marques - 2004 - 265 str.
...-convictions that women are (read: should be) weak and need to be helped. However, as Calvin Coolidge stated, "Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." No matter how many hurdles they encounter, the strong will always bounce back, like a cork in a pool... | |
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