Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what, pray, has the excellence of Dr. Jefferson's preaching and his freedom "from garbled sensationalism" got to do with the remuneration he receives. Did St. Paul, St. Francis, St. Ignatius claim return from their saintliness...
...only a deputy. Yet a lionheartedness was in him, and perhaps a serpentine wisdom. By sheer, imperious leadership he welded friends, then students, then political adherents into an orderly group. It stood ready to follow and acknowledge his supremacy when the War brought an opportunity to strike for Czechoslovak freedom. As to just how this vital group was formed Professor Masaryk is regrettably a trifle reticent. He barely mentions by their last names a few of the men who aided him, then hurries on to the statement that "toward the Summer of 1915 . . . my authority was . . . recognized on every hand...
Meanwhile Professor Masaryk had escaped from Austria-Hungary. His unique distinction was to be that he would achieve the freedom of his people not as a revolutionary from within but as a propagandist from without. Settling first at Geneva and later in London, he wrote and labored unceasingly, with the aid of Dr. Eduard Benes, now Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Of him Masaryk writes: "He had great initiative and was an untiring worker. . . . I naturally took the lead. . . . Politically and historically he was so well trained that . . . he was soon able to act for himself." (Thus even today President Masaryk...
...certain observance of good table manners is not an infringement of the freedom of eating; the practice of taking one's morning bath in the bathroom instead of in a glass tub before a mixed audience is not an infringement of the freedom of bathing; and my advice respecting the proposed lecture of Mrs. Russell no more affects the liberalism of the University of Wisconsin or its loyalty to free speech than the Hottentot alphabet-if there is one-affects the selling price of Wisconsin cheese...
Blood spilled in the name of freedom and self-rule saturates the pages of history. Many an ardent patriot has bitten the dust in this cause since Moses led his party across a courteously-disposed Red Sea to the hoped-for freedom of the promised land. Many a sturdy Gaelic cranium has succumbed to violent pressure for the sake of autonomy in the Emerald Isle. But at least we have come upon the group that is loftily indifferent to self-government on whatever terms. This group simply does not care...