Word: clamorers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...issue has not been placed directly before the country but it probably will be before long. In any event the arguments pro and con will not change appreciably; and the way the fires of disunion are breaking out today, it would not be impossible that people will clamor for universal training in order to protect the country...
...would that in the clamor of battle mine hands had laid hold upon death...
...There are persons who constantly clamor. They complain of oppression, speculation and the pernicious influence of accumulated wealth. They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations and all means by which small capitals become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. In a country of unbounded liberty they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where the wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer that...
Such knowledge will not terrify us or make us clamor for early peace. Rather will it make us think, feel the edge of our sword, and go on to finish a task clearly proved necessary. No careless, light hearted American army will now enter battle. It will be a large body of serious, determined men, who will push on to the end. They will not flinch, nor will their spirit weaken because they actually know how hard is the work ahead of them. That American spirit is now meeting its supreme test, but it will take more than rod-driven...
...mere accident that has made all the pro-German organs in the press clamor against the men who dare point out our shortcomings, the speaker proceeded to assert, for the pro-Germans know well that our country's ruthless enemies, whom they serve as far as they dare, desire nothing so much as to see this country afraid to acknowledge and make good its shortcomings; and those pro-Germans cloak their traitor-our aid to Germany under the camouflage of pretended zeal to save American officials from just criticism. "But there is an even lower depth," Mr. Roosevelt affirmed...