Word: idealists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter what may be our opinion of his leadership, his judgment, his diplomacy (and even these, one may believe, will appear better from a distance), this memory of him is destined to live; in everything he did as President he was a high-minded patriot and a sincere idealist...
...calls the object of his wrath a "socialist". "Bolshevik" and "communist" are other terms frequently used--all in a very vague but uniformly defamatory manner. Yet not so long ago, these words were in perfectly good repute; and though it might stamp one as a crank and impractical idealist, to be a socialist or communist was not held to be a stain on one's character. Just so the little word "liberal" has come to "cover a multitude of sins", this time as a camouflage for less respected designations. Properly speaking, a liberal" is one who is free: free from...
...cases of this kind. Writing to H. G. Wells in 1906, he said, 'Exactly that callousness to abstract justice is the sinister feature, and to me as to you the incomprehensible feature,--of our U. S. civilization. . . . When the ordinary American hears of these cases instead of the idealist within him beginning to see red with the higher indignation, instead of English history growing alive in his breast, he begins to pooh-pooh and minimize and tone down the thing, and breed excuses from his general fund of optimism and respect for expedience...
...country. With these are Socialists, Adventurers, men who want an independent India, and men who want a de-Westernized India. Gandhi, the leader of the Extremists, and the man who has the greatest influence over the masses, belongs primarily to the last group. He is a brilliant man, an idealist and an ascetic, who has given up everything for his cause, and in this light his words and his ideas carry great weight with the restless, uneducated class. His hatred of everything European leads him to advocate not only the defeat of British rule but the doing away with railways...
...opposed to any league, has declared himself as ready to enter the community of nations provided the individuality of the United States is not to be submerged in the welter of conflicting ambitions and prejudices which the League, without modifications, bids fair to become. To the internationalist, to the idealist, this view may seem so lukewarm as to be palatable, so cautious as to be ridiculous...