Reclaiming a Commonwealth, and Other Essays, by Cheesman A. Herrick

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J.J. McVey, 1911 - 201 strani
 

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Stran 120 - Nothing operates more certainly to create or to foster popular prejudice against lawyers as a class, and to deprive the profession of that full measure of public esteem and confidence which belongs to the proper discharge of its duties than does the false claim, often set up by the unscrupulous in defense of questionable transactions, that it is the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his client's cause.
Stran 179 - A non-contributory pension system is simply a counsel of despair. If such a scheme be defensible or excusable in this country, then the whole economic and social system is a failure. The adoption of such a policy would be a confession of its breakdown. To contend that it is necessary to take this course is to assume that members of the working class either cannot earn enough, or cannot save enough, to take care of themselves in old age. If that be true, then American democracy is in a state of decay...
Stran 118 - I will not counsel or maintain any suit or proceeding which shall appear to me to be unjust, nor any defense except such as I believe to be honestly debatable under the law of the land; I will employ for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to me such means only as are consistent with truth and honor, and will never seek to mislead the Judge or jury by any artifice or false statement of fact or law...
Stran 138 - God give us men ! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honour — men who will not lie ; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking; Tall men. suncrowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking.
Stran 50 - ... rescript of an emperor already procured, or that may hereafter be procured, or under an Imperial decree, or under a rescript signed by Our Majesty ; nor may any persons combine or agree in unlawful meetings, that different kinds of merchandise may not be sold at a less price than they may have agreed upon among themselves. Workmen and contractors for buildings, and all who...
Stran 50 - Speaker, they will not bate us a pin ; we may not buy our own cloaths without their brokage. These are the leeches that have sucked the commonwealth so hard, that it is almost become hectical.
Stran 149 - The Governor of the State, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the president of the State University, the president of...
Stran 15 - It is a shining day in any educated man's growth when he comes to see and to know and to feel and freely to admit that it is just as important to the world that the .ragamuffin child of his worthless neighbor should be trained as it is that his own child should be. Until a man sees this he...
Stran 44 - In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of a statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration.
Stran 13 - The people have the right to the privilege of education, and it is the duty of the State to guard and maintain that right.

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