Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have always gone to war for the utmost just causes, for our national freedom, for the freedom of the high seas, for the freedom of the Lone Star State, for the freedom of the slaves, for the freedom of tyrannized Cuba. We go to war now for the freedom of the German people. We are true to our history. We have kept our national faith in freedom. We go to war for a cause no less just...
...Senate's unfortunate delay, and construe that hesitancy as weakness. They should know that no group of head-strong and coldly disloyal men may make the greatest of republics pusillanimous. Those Senators who raised their clamorous voices against war are proof not of our indecision, but of our true freedom. In more autocratic countries they would have been hanged...
...question, volunteers should be obtained on a democratic basis. Since every young man in the United States enjoys equal rights and equal protection under the laws of this Government, every young man ought to bear equal responsibility in the defence of the country whose Government insures him his political freedom and protection. A call for volunteers will unquestionably bring out more men than are needed, but they will be a class of men that have a pronounced sense of patriotism. They will be the most intelligent citizens whose responsibilities to their country are no greater than their neighbors, but whose...
...question before Congress is a more difficult and intricate one. The proper solution will result in this first increment being a democratic, fair selection from the large numbers of our young men, which will go out as a democratic contribution from a great democracy to aid in restoring the freedom and privileges of democracy to the suffering people of a stern autocracy...
...movements, of course, there must be opposition. Freedom of speech and thought, differences of opinion on all questions, are to be desired. But there is a limit to all things. A handful of misguided Senators blocked the passage of military measures at Washington, and brought upon themselves the opprobrium of the nation; a handful of misguided undergraduates of the University are screaming for neutrality even now. Some of them are sincere, but blind, in their beliefs; others are simply cowards...