Prosperity Is Only An Instrument

You Have To Stand Every Day Three Or Four Hours Of Visitors. Nine-tenths Of Them Want Something They Ought Not To Have. If You Keep Dead-still They Will Run Down In Three Or Four Minutes. If You Even Cough Or Smile They Will Start Up All Over Again.

The Door Of Opportunity Swings Wide Open In Our Country. Through It, In Constant Flow, Go Those Who Toil. America Recognizes No Aristocracy Save Those Who Work. The Badge Of Service Is The Sole Requirement For Admission To The Ranks Of Our Nobility.

There Are Always Those Who Are Willing To Surrender Local Self-government And Turn Over Their Affairs To Some National Authority In Exchange For A Payment Of Money Out Of The Federal Treasury. Whenever They Find Some Abuse Needs Correction In Their Neighborhood, Instead Of Applying The Remedy Themselves They Seek To Have A Tribunal Sent On From Washington To Discharge Their Duties For Them, Regardless Of The Fact That In Accepting Such Supervision They Are Bartering Away Their Freedom.

[may] This Civic And Social Landmark [the Washington, D.c., Jewish Community Center] ... Be A Constant Reminder Of The Inspiring Service That Has Been Rendered To Civilization By Men And Women Of The Jewish Faith. May [visitors] Recall The Long Array Of Those Who Have Been Eminent In Statecraft, In Science, In Literature, In Art, In The Professions, In Business, In Finance, In Philanthropy And In The Spiritual Life Of The World.

Inflation Is Repudiation.