Fraternity-Testvériség, 1961 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1961-01-01 / 1. szám

FRATERNITY

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period to be worn at a gala “Confederate Ball” to be held at The Citadel during the weekend before the pageant. Bruce Catton, Pulitzer Prize-winning authority on the Confederate War, was the featured speaker at a huge open-to-the-public event on January 7th.

Getting under way the weekend after the New Year and reaching out across more than half of our nation will be a five-year spectacle unlike anything this country has ever seen. And when the guns boomed on January 9, 1961, it had started all over again at the same place

— Charleston, South Carolina — with the sights and sounds a century old having been authentically resurrected.

Everything will be as it was — except the antagonisms that bred the violence. With just rare exceptions, they will have given way to a sober understanding that our country must have respect for the unique contributions and accomplishments of all its people — in every state

— before it can fulfill its role as the leader of free nations.

We have come a long way in one hundred years.

QUOTATIONS BY EMINENT STATESMEN

George Washington once said: “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”

Not many years later Abraham Lincoln said: “I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.”

Patrick Henry: “The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.”

Ulysses S. Grant: “The Bible is the sheet anchor of our liberties.”

Daniel Webster: “If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”

John Q. Adams: “The first — and almost the only book deserving of universal attention — is the Bible . . . and I say to you, search the Scriptures.”

“There can be no true peace which involves acceptance of a status quo in which we find injustice to many nations and repressions of human beings on a gigantic scale . . ."

Dwight D. Eisenhower