Show COOLIDGE APHORISMS complied compiled by arthur SI cDonald I 1 f I 1 am not one of 0 those who believe votes are to be won by misrepresentations skillful presentations of 0 halt truths and plausible deductions from false premises for good government can not be found on oaf the bargain counter I 1 partisanship should stop at the boundary boun daryline line but patriotism should begin there our public men as a class are inspired by honorable and patriotic motives desirous only of faithful xe cution of their trust we need more of 0 the office desks and less of the show windows in politics politics is not an end but a means not a product but a process it is the art of government and ap like other values it has counterfeits upon which so BO much emphasis has been placed as to absure the original 41 41 0 we are citizens before we are partisans 4 W aw every native born american is potentially ally a president w aw there ahr e are quacks shysters shy and charlatans among politicians doctors and ia lawyers but they are not representative senta enta tive por for 4 aw when you substitute patronage tor for patriotism administration breaks down w aw W public men must expect criticism and endure false charges char es public business la is transacted acted on a higher plane than p private in office holding only the man of sympathy and deep understanding of 0 his fellow men can meet with such success yet th ohp P development of the state has ever been beeb from lan archy through 1 despotism through oligarchy groad ened into democracy and ending in representative based upon universal suf ferage rage but many nations have fallen along the way 14 office holding hold ing Is th the e incidental the standard of citizenship la Is the essential every man Is a politician whether ho he will or no tor for government does not rest upon the opinions of 0 men on cut E upon their actions our public schools have made aducat education lon possible for or all ind and ignore agnor trice since a disgrace those with liberal culture ought to be the leaders in maintaining the standards or of citizenship or their education is a failure aw 4 my college mates were with a serious purposed purpose he who v ho fiad had less lacked wace among them |