Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...America cannot make war by saying what she will do, which is not determinate, not what she has done, which is not stupendous. She cannot make war less wisely than her enemy...
...There are various reasons for buying the bonds. These bonds are the promise of the richest and the strongest Government in the world. They cannot fail to be paid, principal and interest; will rise when the war ends, and are, therefore, a desirable security. They are the promise of your 'firm,' the United States, and are issued to help on the cause of Freedom and Civilization, which we believe in, by which we live, and which we must have or disappear as citizens,--though we might become subjects of a superior power. In short, we are all glad, as honest...
...course of instruction has been mapped out and the corps will be opened to graduates and other educated men. The cost of the training for each man is estimated at $115, and scholarships to cover this amount have been subscribed by patriotic citizens in order to enable men who cannot afford the expense may yet benefit from the training...
Realizing this, realizing that now, entering the most terrible war that is recorded in history, we cannot permit even the minor loss of our resources, it would be folly to wait one day beyond the necessary in beginning that conservation which war has forced upon...
What is the force that halts our Congress? It cannot be ignorant of the world's dire lack of foodstuffs. It cannot be indifferent to the welfare of those great armies which will be formed. It should know, if it does not know, the sentiment of the people, which, laying aside its former diversified opinion, demands as insistently as it demanded universal service that the government take measures without delay for the saving of our great, but all to scanty, resources...