Secondly, the educated citizen has an obligation to serve the public. He may be a precinct worker or President. He may give his talents at the courthouse, the State house, the White House. He may be a civil servant or a Senator, a candidate or a campaign worker, a winner or a loser. But he must be a participant and not a spectator. "At the Olympic games," Aristotle wrote, "it is not the finest and strongest men who are crowned, but they who enter the lists-for out of these the prize-men are elected. So, too, in life, of the honorable and the good, it is they who act who rightly win the prizes."


Address at Vanderbilt University, 18 May 1963


Secondly, the educated citizen has an obligation to serve the public. He may be a precinct worker or President. He may give his talents at the...

Secondly, the educated citizen has an obligation to serve the public. He may be a precinct worker or President. He may give his talents at the...

Secondly, the educated citizen has an obligation to serve the public. He may be a precinct worker or President. He may give his talents at the...

Secondly, the educated citizen has an obligation to serve the public. He may be a precinct worker or President. He may give his talents at the...