It is the helpless cry of [the] lost women who are victims of centuries of wrong; it is the unspoken plea of thousands of women no...w standing on the brink of similar ruin; it is the silent appeal of the army of women in all lands who in shops and factories are demanding fair living and working conditions; it is the need to turn the energies of more favoured women to public service; it is the demand for a complete revision of women's legal, social, educational, and industrial status all along the line, which permits us no delay, no hesitation. The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure. The pressing need spurs us on, the certainty of victory gives us daily inspiration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spir...it of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-class ...parents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability... of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We ...can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kennedy benefited, too, from the fact that the country perceived him to be, like Roosevelt, a patrician. To be sure, Kennedy did n...ot boast a seventeenth-century lineage or descend from the landed gentry. Yet in other respects they were similar. Both had gone to prestigious prep schools; both were Harvard men; both had sailed the New England coast; each had a sense of noblesse oblige. Like Roosevelt, Kennedy was a man of inherited wealth who could, to a degree, view business from the outside. In comparing Kennedy to Roosevelt, a columnist for the New Republic observed: "Each had an upper-class education, found a life of public service more attractive than money-grabbing, and each had a respect for the decencies. At heart, too, each had a kind of patrician reticence, an impervious private dignity."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We'll be known as the helpful store. The friendly store, the store with a heart. The store that places public service ahead of pro...fit. And, consequently, we'll make more profits then ever before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »