Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...defence of Lucknow, the fight of the Bon Homme Richard, the squares at Waterloo, the Alamo, the peach orchard at Gettysburg, are examples of a spirit in which the American soldier has a share by inheritance direct, or by acquired collateral interest through adoption of our ideals and our citizenship. This trait of blood and breeding has been called upon in the present war; it will be called upon again, many times, and not in vain. We shall not be plagued with regrets over what we might have won, with one more effort. Boston Herald...
...hundreds of thousands of Austro-American citizens in the United States, who earn their living by honest work, and desire no trouble with anybody; most of them probably are Slavs and Hungarians who have no reason to love the Austrian Empire; they must accept the consequences of retaining their citizenship with a power which is at present in all essentials a military department of Germany, and Germany is the enemy of the United States and of real popular government everywhere
...Wendell was widely known as a philanthropist. He organized clubs for the poor boys of New York City and in many cases found homes for the more promising in various parts of the country. He was one of the pioneers in helping the boys of the slums to better citizenship by giving them a chance to grow up in an out of doors atmosphere. He was also interested in such organizations as the Society for Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, the George Junior Republic, and the New York...
...most able to do so, by those who, having reached an age of manhood, assume the responsibility of defending the older and the younger generation. As not one of those who are of military age may shun the duty which falls on them be cause of their citizenship and their strength, so those who are not yet of military age should not strive to assume a burden they are not asked to bear...
There have been coming reports, no doubt largely exaggerated for dramatic effect, of Americans leaving this country for Mexico, for Canada or Cuba, to avoid the military duty which rests on each citizen as the price of his citizenship. One might be easily tempted, with shallow wisdom, to demand that laws be enacted to prevent these men from seeking in flight the presumably safe but blastingly dishonorable course of the coward...