Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...protest would be made against the Trustees in expelling Professors Dana and Cattell and causing Professor Beard's resignation. The meeting was addressed by former instructor Durant of the Philosophy Department who said in pant: "Professor Beard has offered his life and career as a sacrifice to the freedom of speech." Several students also spoke, one saying the meeting was not in the best interests of Columbia. A Freshman struck the true spirit of the occasion when he said that the students had met to protest against the action of the Trustees, and that the affair was purely an academic...
...pass-words of democracy are easily passed, and apt to lose their meaning in the passage. Free speech is one of the bulwarks upon which our individual freedom rests. Yet free speech does not imply immoral speech, not speech with the obvious and declared desire of formenting revolution. The men and women in question, most of them born on a foreign soil, and received generously into our nation with the free rights of citizens, have used our hospitality to strike at the foundations of our laws. There may be a few to weep their martyrdom. But they will be very...
...true liberty so long as society has existed as an institution. The vast majority has provided for the minute minority irreconcilable to the conduct of war. Now we find that minute minority striving to bend the vast majority to its wishes. It is not content with its own freedom of choice. It will choose for the whole nation. That is their desired personal liberty. That is the freedom of choice which they proclaim...
...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, honorable men, to help in the winning of this present war, and help each...
Certain it is that the duty of those who believe the war is wrong is fearlessly and publicly to say so, after the manner of that enlightened group in England which, with David Lloyd-George as its spokesman, rendered such loyal service to freedom and fair-play and all that England aspires to be by publicly denouncing the Boer War and boldly refusing to countenance or further it in any way. Such a group of men, if we had it, and if they were sincere, would be of tremendous moral value in our community today. In those who believe, however...