University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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CHARACTER AND VISION Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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Whoever thinks of ideals in this year, at the beginning of the fourth decade of the twentieth century, must have in mind the deep abyss between opposing ideals; those which animate the attackers of freedom, and those which inspire the defenders of freedom. He must have learned that our kind of idealism can perish just as surely as the free peoples, civilians as well as soldiers, in the democratic nations of Europe, have perished. Experience, which is a dear teacher, must have taught all except the fifth-columnists, the appeasers, and those too blind to see, too deaf to hear, too ignorant to reason, that our way of life is challenged; and the challenge has to be accepted. Furthermore the outcome is to be simply, — liberty or death. Not every generation has the opportunity to rise so high or to fall so low. I think that only such as have standards of conduct based upon those ethical concepts, upon those moral codes, and upon those Christian principles which have held aloft the beacon that has guided progress in our manner of living, can be counted on for leadership which will lead away from the slough of despotism and toward the fruitful plains of a life worth living It is not enough to try to be patriotic now; one must deserve freedom; and patriotism which now includes the fight for the preservation of democracy will be the crowning glory of freedom. PRESIDENT POLK ON CAMPUS AT DESK