Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politi...cian with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I c...annot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that publ...ic policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with a...ll their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body o...r moral nature, there the State enters "woman's peculiar sphere," her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreig...n or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Continued pressure brought passage of a law in 1921 which (exhaustively) declared that "no atheistic, infidel, sectarian, religiou...s, or denominational doctrines" are to be taught in Utah's public schools.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equ...ally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign p...owers, the present may be hailed as the epoch in our history the most favorable for the settlement of those principles in our domestic policy which shall be best calculated to give stability to our Republic and secure the blessings of freedom to our citizens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts ab...out the needs of their own children. Virtually any private or public program that supports parents, effectively supports children. This principle of supporting family vitality seems to us preferable to any policy that would have the state provide children directly with what it thinks they need.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »