Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...much to give up home, health, even life, in order to carry out one's national ideal, and yet it is the plain, over-mastering duty of the citizen in a free land. It is much for the loser in such a fierce struggle as our civil war, to give up the ideal for which he has paid the last price, and to accept the outcome with a fine magnanimity as our brothers of the South have done. They have recognized that this whole country is theirs as well as ours...
...Democratic ideas should control when political issues are on tendencies and theories of government; the Republican, when there are times of foreign danger and necessity for practical and strong legislation. In thus summing up the composition and policies of the two parties, he says in his closing paragraph, "A citizen . . . will support the strong government party when he must, the free government party when he dares. . . . For there be two Jinn, two slaves of the lamp, that serve the Republic. One, the nimbler and the more intelligent, is best employed in the care of its material interests, its bodily welfare...
...Thorp has been a prominent citizen of Cambridge since his graduation from Harvard in 1879. He has made a specialty of amateur photography and in connection with this work has made a careful study of the upper Charles, near Riverside and Norumbega Park...
...Liberty is not in itself a good; it is only a means for obtaining good. In its noblest, simplest terms liberty is self-sacrifice. This self-sacrifice begins with the first step in civilization and is the end of the savage's self-assertion. The earliest use that a citizen of a liberated state makes of his freedom is to give up some part of it for the common good. But the poor man knows he has less liberty than the rich man; till a man is independent he is not free. The man who is in want...
...programme of Mr. Copeland's reading, to be given in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock this evening, will be mainly chosen from "Queen Anne's Men." It will include an extract from "The Rape of the Lock," and one from Pope's "Iliad"; Addison's "The Citizen's Journal," and "The Vision of Mirza"; Swift's account of the Struldbrugs, from "Gulliver's Travels"; Gay's fable, "The Hare and Many Friends"; and, a letter of Lady Mary...