COMES THE DAWN

The hour that the joyous Aurora with rosy fingers drives away the shades of night.1

—RABELAIS

LIFE’S GREATEST OCCUPATION

It is necessary to try to surpass one’s self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

—QUEEN CHRISTINA

THE HERITAGE WE OWE OUR CHILDREN

But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer that forgets but a doer that acts, he shall be blessed in his doing.

—JAMES 1:25 RSV

OUR PROBLEMS: BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE

Don’t think of problems as difficulties, think of them as opportunities for action. Hard as they are, they may turn out to be blessings in disguise.

—C. F. KLEINKNECHT

THE ROLE OF DIFFERENCES

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling would be an evil still.

—JOHN STUART MILL

TWO DIRECTIONS AT ONCE

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

—EDMUND BURKE

More than 20 years ago Henry Hazlitt remarked to me that the country is going in two directions at once! His explanation prompted me to write on the subject in the October 1956 Freeman.

PRE-EMPTORS: AGENTS OF DESTRUCTION

You can only make men free when they are inwardly bound by their own sense of responsibility.

—WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING

I am indebted to Verna Hall for a profound bit of wisdom:

To the extent that an individual turns the responsibility for self over to another or allows government to take it away, to that extent is the very essence of one’s being removed.

THE VAGARIES OF VALUE JUDGMENTS

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils.

—WOODROW WILSON

IDLE WORDS

Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

—MATTHEW XII:36

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?

So many people who think they have a tender heart have only a soft mind.

—JACQUES MARITAIN