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However, the President's decision does not bind individuals as individuals, France needs men. Abundant opportunity is offered to any or all of the two hundred thousand men whom Mr. Roosevelt declared had volunteered to see service at once. The Foreign Legion has done some ugly work. It has not been pampered too much with leisure in which to grow fat between its decimating battles. There is room in that historic legion for men in whom the desire for action burns so very fiercely that they may not stay to go when our troops...
Such a system will be the hydraulic cement to bind together all the magnificent building blocks -- an increased army, an increased navy, strengthened coast fortifications, coast railroads and waterways, the co-ordination of our industrial resources and energies -- into an enduring structure of peace, security and immunity from attack or insult. REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY...
...that one faction is altogether just, the other altogether evil. At such a time when all wisdom is clouded, and virtue takes on the appearance of sin, no single mind may declare the truth. One should hardly allow his partisanship, however earnest, nor his neutrality, however firm, to bind his liberality...
...first step towards abolishing war is to abolish those conditions which are incentives for it. The substitution of a world state for anarchy has been suggested. This would tend to bind the nations into a unit, making them more dependent upon one another. History shows that national sovereignty is gradually emerging and it will probably come sooner or later. It is essential to diminish the independence of nations and make them more inter-dependent if we wish to discourage...
...observe, the members of the league do not bind themselves to accept the award, but only to present their case and hear the decision. Let us consider the probable effect in a concrete case. Take that of the controversy with England about Venezuela, and suppose, what did not happen, that feeling in the two countries had run dangerously high. If the league had consisted, besides these two nations, of France, Germany, Russia, and Japan, neither England nor the United States, however excited, would for a moment have thought of risking war with all the other powers. They would have done...