Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separate Radcliffe extra-curricular activities. But since it realizes that girls may not stick with Annex groups if they can join corresponding Harvard organizations, it wishes to prevent the Harvard groups from having Radcliffe members. It also fears that Radcliffe members of Harvard organizations will have a second-class citizen status, and will actually be "used" by the Harvard groups...
...paying for the heavy burdens of wars, depressions, and welfare services, our taxes have been raised so high that they are constituting in themselves an influence which leads away from freedom and towards socialism. They restrict the ability of the citizen to spend as he pleases. Instead they channel a considerable part of his earnings into general welfare which he may or may not desire. Worse than this in the long run is the deadening hand of taxes on new enterprises and undertakings and the comparative strength they also give to old established businesses. Freedom to start something now with...
Since the U.S. cannot dodge foreign responsibilities, Flanders added, its objective should be the "material prosperity of the American citizen and the preservation of his freedom." This isn't really selfish, he said, because the United States could do little for others in a depression...
Taxes, he said, are basically a means of redistributing production, but "the fact is we have reached the limits of redistribution of production so far as such redistribution is of any benefit whatsoever to the ordinary man. Taxes are already too high. For the benefit of the ordinary citizen we must find some way of reducing them or of giving advantages to those who are in a position to contribute to raising the standard of living of our people...
...Foundation's purpose is to offer lectures "upon the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen...