LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

When will American college students realize that almost ANY bit of real
knowledge would keep ’em from being dead rabbits? Aristotle,
Demosthenes, Mencius or Confucius, all antidotes to bein’ suckers. And
of course it would be a revolution, and INTERlexshul revolution if
college students would be wondering what they spend four years in
college NOT learning!! Which would be both an adornment in the
conversation and of use in their business. Business of LIVIN’, I mean,
cent per cent, 100% livin’, gettin’ something out of life by the process of
puttin’ their interest, mental interest, into it. Instead of being played for a
sucker, by an ex bank tout and international swindler, a specialist in
inflation and devaluation. And of course it is a mere matter of opinion,
but it WAS Aristotle’s opinion, expressed in the 5th book of his Politics,
that the three qualities which supreme magistrates ought to possess are
loyalty to established constitutions; secondly, great capacity for the
duties of the office; and thirdly, virtue and justice.
In each the sort of justice suited. It seems a bit hard on Franklin Delano,
but so it is in the Greek ably translated by Mr. Rackham, and verified by
the present speaker.
#115 (1942) U.S.(27)
TO CONSOLIDATE
If anyone takes the trouble to record and to examine the series of talks I
have made over this radio it will be found that I have used three sorts of
material: Historical facts; convictions of experienced men, based on fact;
and the fruits of my own experience. The facts go back to the opening of
a copper mine by Tching Tang in the year 1766 B.C., they mostly
antedate the fascist era and can not be considered as improvisations
trumped up to meet present requirements. Neither can the beliefs of
Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren, and Lincoln be
laughed off as mere Fascist propaganda. And even my own observations
date largely before the opening of the present hostilities, as do those of
my grandfather expressed in the U.S. Congress in 1878.