Archive for Ben Moreell
Survival of the Species
The key to the survival of civilization is human liberty.
1Jul1978 | Ben Moreell | 0 comments | ContinuedIn Search of Freedom
A businessman’s early warning to other businessmen of the effects of interventions and controls.
1Apr1975 | Ben Moreell | 0 comments | ContinuedFifty Years of Engineering
Emphasizing the special responsibility of the engineer for maintaining a climate of freedom.
1Nov1970 | Ben Moreell | 0 comments | ContinuedTo Be Different – and Free
Another facet of freedom, explains Admiral Moreell, involves the variety that spices our lives.
1Jan1968 | Ben Moreell | 0 comments | ContinuedBusiness, Social Progress, and Religion
Admiral Moreell also pursues that theme as he traces the relationships between business affairs, social progress, and the religious life of the American people.
1Jul1967 | Ben Moreell | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Safety of the People
Admiral Ben Moreell reminds us of Cicero’s observation that the safety of the people depends upon their knowing and observing the Higher Law.
1Sep1966 | Ben Moreell | 0 comments | ContinuedAdult Delinquency
Admiral Ben Moreell is the famed founder of the Navy’s wartime Sea Bees. He was the first (1946) non-Annapolis, four-star admiral since the establishment of the Naval Academy. At present, Admiral Moreell is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Americans for Constitutional Action. We hear much these days about "juvenile delinquency." Most of us [...]
1Jul1960 | Ben Moreell | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Engineers Obligation
Admiral Moreell, Chairman of the Board of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, was wartime Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and Chief of Civil Engineers of the Navy. Having spent the last half century in the pursuit of engineering knowledge and the practice of engineering, I venture to offer some observations on the [...]
1Jan1957 | Ben Moreell | 1 comment | ContinuedWhat Price Socialism?
Admiral Moreell is Chairman of the Board of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation. Modern socialism in its several varieties is the culmination of the dreams of countless men and women during the past century and a half. It is a movement which began to crystallize out of the chaotic remnants of the French Revolution. The [...]
1Oct1956 | Ben Moreell | 0 comments | ContinuedA Free Market
Admiral Moreell is Chairman of the Board of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation. What is meant by “the free market”? To answer this question we have to go back a step or two. Economics deals with desired goods in short supply. Air is not generally an economic good because there is enough for everyone and [...]
1Jun1956 | Ben Moreell | 0 comments | ContinuedA Duty of Management
Admiral Moreell is Chairman of the Board of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation. The above statement is from an address, “The Role of American Business in Social Progress,” before the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce at Indianapolis, December 9, 1955. Copies of the address are available through the Foundation at 10¢ each. There is a [...]
1Mar1956 | Ben Moreell | 0 comments | ContinuedOf Bread And Circuses
Admiral Moreell is chairman of the board, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. A twentieth-century repetition of the mistakes of ancient Rome would be inexcusable.Rome was eight and a half centuries old when the poet, Juvenal, penned his famous tirade against his degenerate countrymen. About 100 A.D. he wrote: “Now that no one buys our votes, [...]
1Jan1956 | Ben Moreell | 1 comment | ContinuedReligion In American Life
A layman re-examines and appraises the meaning of two vital facets of the traditional American way of life Since our subject is religion and its place in American life, we must start with these questions: What is religion? What is American life? There are many concepts of each, with wide divergences of meaning and emphasis. [...]
1May1955 | Ben Moreell | 0 comments | Continued-
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