Judson Welliver Quotes
We have not only made a nation, rough-hewn and popularly governed, the marvel of development among great nations; we have contributed to the uplift and elevated the standard of living; we have not only become leaders in finance and industry; we have not only become equals in education and rivals in art, but we are the inspiration and example of other republics, and ought to be, could be, influencing the idealization of the government of the earth. It justifies our pride in the past, explains the nation-wide turning to the party for the country’s restoration, and gives every assurance of glorious triumphs in the future.
Judson Welliver, *, Executive Secretary to the President, Speechwriter for Warren G. Harding & Calvin Coolidge, The first of the American presidential speechwriters, Address at the General Grant Dinner of the Republican Party, Quoted at the founding dinner of the Judson Welliver Society (Association of former White House Speechwriters), October 20, 1985
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This was an incredible prediction that few people thought was possible. This speech was given in the early days of WWII when it was far from clear that we would win.
Over 100 years later a group of Islamic Modernists and Scientists came to a similar conclusion.
This quotation was written long before the “Protestant work ethic” was coined and well defined. Even though Say was a Frenchman from a Catholic country, he and most other serious economists and politicians recognized this vast difference.
In the 19th century, most socialists thought that the government was the major creator of jobs. In the 20th century, most socialists acknowledged that jobs could emanate from both the public and private sectors. Here in the 21st century, one of the world’s leading socialists, stated that private companies were necessary for full employment.
What is interesting about this quotation, is the author. This is a typical observation of a conservative politician, but here we have the head of the Communist Party of France extolling the importance of economic capitalistic growth. Intellectually, classic Marxist economic theory had become debunked even among many of the Communist leaders.
26 years after the Castro led Cuban Revolution Although the Cuban economy tanked under Castro’s communism, the progress in health, nutrition and education were amazing—the greatest progress in the least time that occurred in history except for the possible exception of Israel. Castro, however, accomplished these achievements trampling over people’s individual rights. If a Cuban was literate, it mattered not whether he/she wanted to teach others. This was a requirement with no pay provided.
The Interstate Commerce clause of the Constitution ensured that this would happen. It was so successful that the EEC and other groups of countries tried to emulate it by creating legal common markets.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. At the time China was one of the poorest nations on earth, with a series of feeble politicians and leaders fighting each other for the ability to rob the people. Their ancient science and virtues had been forgotten and it was thought of by the West and Asians alike as a failed state. However, Russell observed this one characteristic that could be so important when the rest of the world was learning more and more about everything from science to history. The search for wisdom from wherever it may be also gave them an advantage over other cultures who were more chauvinistic about the origin of whatever they did or thought. Less than a century later China was a superpower, economically, artistically intellectually, scientifically and almost militarily. It only lagged democratically.
George was one of the first people to notice that with all the great development and technological breakthroughs, it does not become easier for the lower educated people in society to earn a living. He had not totally focused on education but made the observation for the lower classes where there is a high correlation with education.
Judson Churchill Welliver was a "literary clerk" to President Warren G. Harding and is usually credited as being the first presidential speechwriter.
