...be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide. When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced,...kind, unassuming persuasion should ever be adopted. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves the government should not interfere....

...be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide. When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced,...kind, unassuming persuasion should ever be adopted. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves the government should not interfere....

...opposed to driving an individual, to denouncing him, to cursing and abusing him, always contending "that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall." "By virtue of half a dozen signatures, Berry and Lincoln became proprietors of the only mercantile...

...with those very persons whom it is their object to convince and persuade" and admonishes them that "If you would win a man to your cause first convince him that you are his sincere friend." Of their methods he said " Too much denunciation . . . was indulged in. This, I think, was both impolitic...

...anathema—was to expect a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed. When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced,...persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, "that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall." So with men. If you...

...the living realization of Burns' ideal of a democracy in his words: "A man's a man, for a' that" " If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the greatest...

...with crimination, and anathema with anathema." In urging the policy of kindly persuasion he quoted the maxim that "a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall," and he asserted that "the kindly method of the Washingtonians to convince and persuade their old companions...

...the whole attitude of a probation officer towards his probationer. He said, " When the conduct of man is designed to be influenced, persuasion — kind, unassuming persuasion — should ever be adopted. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend — such is...

...the whole attitude of a probation officer towards his probationer. He said, " When the conduct of man is designed to be influenced, persuasion — kind, unassuming persuasion — should ever be adopted. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend — such is...

...have had experience con only answer it in the words of Lincoln's advice right here on the program. "If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his true friend." In those words we can cover the scope of the work. However, I want to say this, that...