The Advancement Of The Radio Art and The Enhancement of International Goodwill

The rules and regulations in this part are designed to provide an amateur radio service having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following principles:
(a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications.
(b) Continuation and extension of the amateur’s proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art.
(c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communication and technical phases of the art.
(d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts.
(e) Continuation and extension of the amateur’s unique ability to enhance international goodwill.

On a recent podcast I mentioned that I like the phrase “the radio art.” I also mentioned that I heard some objections to this term. A couple of guys wrote in on this –see below.
I found out that the phrase features prominently in Part 97 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations. This is the document that establishes ham radio in the U.S. (see above)
I really like the last line of the first section of Part 97: e) Continuation and extension of the amateur’s unique ability to enhance international goodwill. Yea! That’s us! The International Brotherhood of Electronic Wizards!