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Page 7 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all.
Page 2 - To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
Page 8 - ... are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas. Are you willing to...
Page 6 - Indiana needs no guardian and intends to have none. We Hoosiers, like the people of our sister States, were fooled for quite a spell with the magician's trick that a dollar taxed out of our pockets and sent to Washington, will be bigger when it comes back to us. We have taken a good look at said dollar. We find that it lost weight on its journey to Washington and back. The political brokerage of the bureaucrats has been deducted. We have decided that there is no such thing as 'Federal
Page 8 - ... are just as real as you are and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy; to own that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life but what you are going to give to life; to...
Page 9 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 8 - ... their hearts ; to try to understand what those who live in the same house with you really want, without waiting for them to tell you ; to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you ; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open — are you willing to do these things even for a day ? Then you can keep Christmas.