Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...capable of appreciating the generosity of others can fail to appreciate the generosity of our instructors, and of the Government which donated them. As partial earnest of full payment each cadet will strive to his furthest ability to profit by the skilled and thoughtful training which he is receiving. The full payment may be made in France, as brave officers, leading men in battle for the glorification of the French officers' cause and of our equal cause...
Those men who may not, or are not going to war, have in the Liberty Loan a way of showing their confidence in those who pay their irredeemable lives for the nation's being. They cannot fail to equal in cheaply gained gold that sacrifice which others make and may not regain, having made...
...There are various reasons for buying the bonds. These bonds are the promise of the richest and the strongest Government in the world. They cannot fail to be paid, principal and interest; will rise when the war ends, and are, therefore, a desirable security. They are the promise of your 'firm,' the United States, and are issued to help on the cause of Freedom and Civilization, which we believe in, by which we live, and which we must have or disappear as citizens,--though we might become subjects of a superior power. In short, we are all glad, as honest...
That foolish optimism has vanished. We see that the people are not subscribing in large amounts for the loan. It is still a capitalist's investment. For that reason, if the loan does not fail financially, it will fail morally, being not an expression of national confidence and unity, but simply a token of our abundant capital...
...clear that without the support of the entire American people, the Liberty Loan may fail. Gradually, through the press of the country and other mediums, this truth is being established in the minds of thoughtful men and women. The question to decide, therefore, is not so much an academic discussion of responsibility, as "Do I want the Liberty Loan to succeed?" Few individuals who profess the title of Americans would answer anything but "Yes," and the only honest yes, when it is possible, means actual, material contributions...