Word: idealization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other nations, some greater and some less, have seen it for centuries, and united it is willing to give the very limit of its strength for empire. It is Persia risen again, without the wisdom of Persia, who had tolerance for subject peoples. It is revolutionary France, without the ideal vision of France. It is Rome...
Those of the peace party who have any foresight and any sort a synthetic mind, and there must be a great many such people among so large a party, will see that German conquest will put the acceptance of peace-party ideals back hundreds of years. If members of the peace party believe in clinging to an ideal, even to the extent of bringing down the scorn of the rest of the world, let them now take up and continue to take up arms in defense of that ideal, until the ruling force in Germany, the one great and powerful...
There has been a great deal said about the tragedy of the thousands of brave men who have given up their lives for the perpetuation of an ideal. Yet there has been nothing said about the tragedy of those who have made no sacrifice...
Those who gave liberty to our nation might in all probability never have fought for the cause which inspired the men of the Civil War. Those men might never have fought for the cause which we undertake. Generation gives way to generation, and ideal replaces ideal...
...night, insanely and brutally took vengeance on one man, were inspired by a spirit of patriotism which is as false as it is evil. Not by violence may the great democracy be made steadfast. They, ignorant of the meaning of liberty, used the methods of violence to defend an ideal which they could not comprehend...