Word: defends
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...night, insanely and brutally took vengeance on one man, were inspired by a spirit of patriotism which is as false as it is evil. Not by violence may the great democracy be made steadfast. They, ignorant of the meaning of liberty, used the methods of violence to defend an ideal which they could not comprehend...
Young men, you young men of the South, do not attempt from a barren sectional pride to defend a crime so horrible. For such lust of death in a whole city, a whole country-side, there is no shadow of defence, not now, nor in eternity. It is for those men who in time hope to lead the South to arouse such horror in their hearts of this mob blindness that they will do away with it forever; that our whole people, without sectional exception, will honor that law and justice upon which our nation rests...
Economists are generally agreed that speculation normally performs some very vital functions. The economist does not defend monopolistic speculation--the effort to "corner" the market. Such efforts--more likely to be successful in the stock market than in the grain market, because the capital required to control a corporation is vastly less than that required to control the world's stock of a great staple grain--have been made, and have at times had demoralizing effects. When made, they should be punished mercilessly. It does not appear, however, that monopolistic combinations by speculators dealing in "futures" is the cause...
...battles of the Revolution and the Civil War, which made the United States "safe" until today, "for democracy." We must look up to the flag once more as the standard of our forefathers, as the symbol of the ideals which we, as a democratic nation, stand ready to defend...
...with a normal desire to perform his duties as a citizen, finds the incentive toward service in the regular military establishment or in the militia somewhat weaker than the incentive to take his ease, avoiding all discipline. The country's need that he shall know how to defend it is not brought to his attention. If, however, there were a law requiring his service with the colors for a given time at a particular period of his life, he would perform the service as a matter of course, as he accepts the fact of compulsory education in more conventional...