Word: apts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pass-words of democracy are easily passed, and apt to lose their meaning in the passage. Free speech is one of the bulwarks upon which our individual freedom rests. Yet free speech does not imply immoral speech, not speech with the obvious and declared desire of formenting revolution. The men and women in question, most of them born on a foreign soil, and received generously into our nation with the free rights of citizens, have used our hospitality to strike at the foundations of our laws. There may be a few to weep their martyrdom. But they will be very...
...public conveyances, such as railway trains and street cars, and in public places, such as theatres, honors and personal salutes may be omitted when palpably inappropriate or apt to disturb or annoy civilians present. (C.A.R...
...conservatively, the announcement of this empire-wrecking device seems to have been rather premature. The announcement was not out of accord with the traditions of our people, which is apt to mistake the word for the deed, and confound its accomplishments with its hopes. That is the error of youth, which makes grandiose speeches about conquering the world, and then starts out to earn its bread and butter. Compare Germany, which did not say what she would do till it was done. At Liege, when the valiant defenders were rejoicing that the German advance had been stemmed, and her great...
...world does not love a loafer, an egoist, a poltroon or a cad. Yet the world is apt to be misled by clothes, by a distant or elevated manner, by reputation or another inessential sham. No more does the Army love a loafer, an egoist, a poltroon, or a cad. And in the Army there is nothing to conceal or overcast a man's real nature. When fifty men are put in one kind of clothes and lined up to do close-order drill in an unindividualistic way, there is not much to hide the true from the false...
...Both Houses of Congress having accepted the principle of the citizen's liability to service, and being about to apply this principle in legislation for the raising of troops, the majority of citizens who have not given this subject serious consideration are apt to feel that the question is permanently settled...