The Evolution and Dynamics of National Goals in the United States

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 58 páginas
Overview of public interest trends and changing government policy goals in the USA with particular reference to the conflict of goals which has accompanied technological change - provides historical background material for a government study of current science policy goals in respect of power generation, examines the range of contemporary hostile attitudes toward technological change and innovation, and covers social change, social costs of environmental pollution, etc. References.
 

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Página 8 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
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Página 7 - Those who labor in the earth, are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Página 7 - ... the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption.
Página 56 - Now understand me well — it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
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Página 7 - It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and...
Página 7 - The political economists of Europe have established , it as a principle, that every state should endeavor to manufacture for itself: and this principle, like many others, we transfer to America, without calculating the difference of circumstance which should often produce a difference of result.
Página 48 - Under the plan, its membership will include the Vice President, and the Secretaries of the Treasury, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health, Education and Welfare, Housing and Urban Development, and Transportation, and the Attorney General.

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