On This Day | For a New Year and a Lifetime
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Josh Wolsky
A long time ago, Oliver Goldsmith said: "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." We are going to stumble and fall as citizens, as states, and as nations mistakes will be made.
The need of the hour is good citizenship -- and that does not mean following blindly ambitious and designing men with little sympathy in the perpetuation of republican institutions, men who have no particular interest in the general welfare of the people or the advancement of civilization and Christianity except as it contributes to their personal political power or wealth.
If every man and woman could be made to feel and realize in every fibre of their being that they are individual stockholders in this great cooperative government -- that no man on earth has more right to his say-so than you have, then, and not till then, will good citizenship be full recognized and pure democracy rule.
1923-12-27 | Ward County Independent
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