Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...carrying it through, although, as unlikely as it may sound, should this country in the heat of battle so far fall from the standard set for it by President Wilson as to continue fighting needlessly from hatred or sheer unwillingness to desist, or as to enter upon schemes of conquest, then the spirit behind the Harvard Union for American Neutrality may once more rise in protest. Until then, silentia nobiscum. HALLOWELL DAVIS '18. Chairman of the Harvard Union for American Neutrality...
...increased trade or for the slaughter of little governments or for the conquest of lands beyond the seas. Our desires are clean of the thought of gain. The hope of a peace based upon national tolerance has led us to take up arms against that government which wills no peace and comprehends no tolerance. Is there now one statesman so unwise as to say we lack ideals, that our only thought is of gain while the whole world bleeds...
...times before, as dependent colonies, as a small republic, as a great Power, it has raised the standard of battle. Each time it was goaded to humiliation before it was willing to enter on the final and most awful test of national greatness. We have never rushed blindly nor conquest-mad to war. We do not rush blindly now. We have endured beyond the point of all endurance, because the sense of justice and forebearance is so keen in us as a people that we hesitate lest one right thinking man might say we have been over-hasty...
...this great nation, has stated in clear, manly terms the only honorable stand that this country can take. We congratulate him upon his firm declaration and pledge our heartiest support to following principles so well expressed by him. "We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of the nations...
...reason and calm judgment when the passions of the unthinking are sweeping them away; it is to remember throughout a conflict its true cause and not to permit childish credulity and unreasoning desire to blind the nation into waging a barbaric war of hate and revenge, blood-lust and conquest. If we fight it will be to maintain our rights as a sovereign nation with honor and dignity; our aim will be to prevent our rights from violation in the future and it will not be merely to punish a present offender, for punishment is a means...