Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...incontravertible necessity of centralization of power and responsibility. America now has its powerful administration; England long ago created its war council. They both are actuated by the principle that democratic forms must be sacrificed in times of national emergency. They allow for healthy criticism, but they demand a complete freedom from petty interference and partisan dissension. In America and England there have been mistakes and many of them. Human nature is far from infallible, as are political bodies. But the errors of centralization are in no way comparable to those of partisanship. Lloyd George stands as a great figure...
...century wars for conquest planned, timed and inaugurated for the aggrandizement of emperors or empires do not pay as they often did between the periods of Alexander the Great and Napoleon; the lesson that civilization virtually is a union of righteousness dominated by the principles of justice, humanity and freedom, and that upon these principles, and against the ruthless tenets and savage practices of the imperialism of ancient times and of the Middle Ages nations which are civilized can agree, and will co-operate successfully, even though some of them may be Christians and others believers in Buddhism, Mohammedanism...
...know. On the brink of a great struggle, it had made no preparations for war. It was a nation of individuals, divided by a hundred varying interests and cares, peaceful and contented in its material prosperity, and complacent in its traditions of democracy and the freedom of men, a sort of Babylonian boarding house of enlightened beings, living in a happiness which was sooner or later bound to meet the rocks of the vital problems of the world's life. All that is changed today. The growing convictions of the early years of the war have burst forth into actual...
Love of blood does not prompt such feelings. It is not a question of wreaking stern vengeance on an exasperating foe. But love of country, love of freedom from Teutonism, and love of the right dictates these sentiments. They are not felt by the cold-hearted and stoical alone; the timid share them too. They are the convictions of the thinking part of a nation in a horrible...
...overemphasis of such a philosophy in, let us say, America, is, I believe, an extreme and shocked reaction away from the opposite extreme of a purely materialistic interpretation of history which would rob us of God and a despotically socialist state which would deprive us of all freedom...