Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...easiest thing in the world to sketch out in the closet a system of government; and it is one of the most difficult things in the world to make a government really function. In just the same way it is proverbially easy to preach morality, and still easier to applaud it when preached; but it is difficult to do the only thing that counts, which is to apply the morality in practice. For that reason when I speak of applied morality,--using morality in the largest sense, that is, for the efficient application of the principles, the carrying...
...Here, again, I mention these men merely to illustrate by example just what I mean in what I have to say to you tonight. It is the easiest thing in the world for any man, sitting in his study, to write virtuous articles in which he declaims against the greed of people who are engaged in destroying our forests or wasting our water supply. But it is an exceedingly difficult thing practically to work out a scheme of conservation. And this was just exactly what Messrs. Garfield and Pinchot did. Their work was done not only with zeal and disinterestedness...
...talks should do much toward explaining to the class of 1914 the duties and opportunities which will confront it in Freshman year. An important element of the reception is the chance offered to those invited of meeting their classmates. The beginning of Freshman year is of all times the easiest in which to make a wide circle of friends. The meeting this evening is the only occasion in several months at which the whole class is able to gather socially, and the opportunity thus offered should not be neglected...