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Show Common Misquotations. Just as the popular so-called quotations from the Bible and Shakespeare are commonly com-monly misquoted, so It will bo found the wlso sayings of statesmen have not always al-ways been preserved in their original Integrity. In-tegrity. For example, thcro Is Washington's apothegm apo-thegm that "To bo prepared for war Is one of the most effectual means of preserving pre-serving peace." This has been condensed Into the familiar "In tlmo of peace pre-paro pre-paro for war." Then Jefferson's axiom, "Vacancies by death are few, by resignation resigna-tion none." is almost invariably applied to tho offlcc-holdlng contingent in the shapo of the assertion "Few die, and nono resign." Two Western newspapers have as their motto. "Error ceases to bo dangerous when truth is left free to combat it." This is a mutilation of President Jefferson's Jeffer-son's celebrated saying in his Inaugural addrcKa that 'Error of opinion may be tolerated tol-erated where reason Is left freo to combat It." Tho commonlv used phrase "A delusion de-lusion and a snfare" ia a compression of Lord Denman's' expression "A delusion, a mockers and a snare." Tom Palne's "One step abovo tho sublime makes tho ridiculous" has boon modernized Into "From tho sublime to the ridiculous." Fouche's "It 13 moro than a crime it is a political fault," has becomo "It 13 worse than a crime K is a blunder." Joulah Quincy's threat of the secession of borne of the States, "Amicably If thuy can, violently if they must," was ko effectually ef-fectually misquoted by Henry Clay that his rendition "Peacefully if they can. for-cblv for-cblv If they must" has been commonly received. Juckaona famous toast, "Our Federal Union: It Must Be Preserved,' has been amplified into "Must and shall be. ' Then thorn la Chief Justico Chase's eloquent characterization of "An Indestructible Inde-structible Union composed of Indestructible Indestructi-ble States." This, in the mouth of tho averago Fourth of July orator, has become. be-come. "An indissoluble Union of lnde-Btructlble lnde-Btructlble States." New York Press. |