George Washington
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Excerpt from George Washington: An Address Delivered in the First Congregational Church of Oak Park, Illinois on Sunday, February 22, 1920 Democracy is more than a form of government: it is a philosophy of life. Governments and forms of government are not ends in themselves, but means to an end. That end, as defined in our Declaration of Independence, is the promotion of the inalienable rights of mankind, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If any government fails to promote that end it is the right of the people to abrogate it; if any form of government proves to be subversive of that end, it is the right of the people to change it. Whether our form of government is inherently superior to other forms is to be determined, not on the basis of any theoretical advantage, but by the tests of human experience. As a method of conducting public business, a democratic form of government may be more efficient, safe and economical than another, and to that extent superior; but there are two questions still to be answered before we are assured that that particular form is best. The first relates to the welfare of the whole people. Are they more prosperous, more intelligent, more efficient, more righteous under a democratic - or, if you prefer the name, a republican form of government - than under a monarchy, limited or autocratic? And the other question is: Does this republican form of government produce a higher type of manhood than is produced under other systems of government? With the first of these questions we are not now dealing directly; but we are to seek some basis for an answer to the second of them in the lives of certain characteristic types of American manhood. A republican form of government, to justify itself, must do more than to prove that it provides a convenient and efficient method of transacting public business. It must show the fruits of its superiority by the production and the recognition of great leaders. A republic can never be safe, no matter how wise and prosperous its people are, if its leaders are weak men or designing demagogues. Just now, when autocracy has been driven from the throne, it belongs to America, which stands before the world as the harbinger of a world-wide democracy, to prove the worth of its system of government in the nobility of its leadership. That is why we are devoting three Sunday evenings to the contemplation of three successive types of American character. They are three very different men, but men with these two elements in common - first that each of them became the President of the United States, and at the close of his term of office was re-elected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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