Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no time to argue concerning the defied and immemorial right of men to get drunk when they want. There is no time to rant about the freedom of the individual; nor to sentimentalize poetically upon Dionysus. We are not fighting philosophers, demagogues, or poets. We are fighting a nation which allows no waste...
...fall. The present conflict will not be decided in a short month or two. The young men of this country should make an immediate resolve to give themselves unreservedly to the service of the cause that their Government has championed until the enemy of human rights and freedom is convinced of its error. Since the entering of one of these camps means stern trials and responsibilities for the future, the Harvard man who makes the decision should realize what will be expected of him and should enter the game with his eyes open...
...great danger in democracy is that people resent any presence of necessary discipline as opposed to freedom; it is not necessary to Prussianize a nation through militarism, but an athlete knows that discipline and control are necessary to his own freedom in order to do his best work...
...America's entrance into the war, and even now in some places in England and France that are distant from the scene of action, the people are not yet in entire sympathy with the war, or at least cannot realize its full significance. A country with the wonderful freedom of thought that the United States enjoys is better able to realize the seriousness...
...pride of Germany must be bitter and frustrate when she knows that against her are allied all the great freedom-loving and self-governing Powers of the earth. Will she find her own defeat worth all the blood and iron it cost her, all her wrecked fortune, her ruined strength...