Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sustained the traditions of her patriots and scholars. By precept and example you have taught that the first duty of every citizen is to his country. In public life you have been independent and out spoken: in private life you have stood for simplicity. In the great and bewildering conflict of economic and social questions you have with clear head and firm voice spoken for the fundamental principles of democracy and the liberties of the people...
...that note touched me very much. It expressed the youth's feeling at the sight of the veteran in a conflict into which the youth is going,--where the veteran has long been. That note is one of the most precious of the testimonies that I have received. And yesterday, at a family gathering, a lady handed to me a note which she said that a lady in Boston had asked her to deliver. I opened it and there was not a word in it,--not one,--only a leaf. But that leaf was laurel...
...racial difference, or a class distinction, is a minor matter--they are all equally productive of strife. In the case of a national boundary or a racial difference, a part of the responsibility may be laid upon nature, though even a national boundary ceases to be the scene of conflict in proportion as the members of the separated groups come to know one another through travel and commerce. Mutual intercourse tends to bridge the gap which nature established, and consequently to remove the cause of international conflict...
...system will decrease the amount of time required of candidates from day to day, for all the work will be assigned under supervision of the editors in charge of the various divisions of news and the waste and conflict of energy arising when candidates are allowed to follow any chance rumors in any field of news will be abated...
...largely dominated by conditions in the cities. There is, therefore, no greater political work than that of maintaining a high standard of municipal government. For a high standard to be possible in our heterogeneously populated cities Mr. Shepard said that these two principles must be adhered to--both in conflict with certain ideas of Puritanic reform: first, that partisanship should be maintained and strengthened in municipal politics,--always assuming that partisanship mean not service of party as an end, but the holding of party as a means to carry out policies for the general good; second, that municipal government should...