Word: land
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...temptation was obvious for these men, accustomed to action and eager for the utmost service in the consecrated cause of their native land, to feel that in training a group of unskilled young men here, however willing were those young men, and however great was the need of training, they had been relegated to the less exciting and less glorious post of war. Yet with large vision and broad sympathy they saw the needs and the possibilities of the lessons which they might teach, and have worked without rest in the teaching...
France has summoned her boys for the defense of their native land against the impending national disaster. They have responded with the valor of men. Germany has summoned boys not so young, but still too young for the harsh work of war, that her divisions might be kept at full strength...
Attacks against property have been sporadic as yet. When will the time come for the proclamation of a universal participation of wealth, as of land? When will the time come for a denial of religion, a defiance of constituted governments, and usurpation of war against the world...
...truth so plainly truthful as to need no statement that the bonds of our Government are the safest way in which an investor may conserve his money for future use, at the same time enjoying interest. Behind them rests all the resources of this land, every factory, every railroad, every mine, and all the incalculable wealth of fields and forests. Behind them rests even the skill, the enterprise and ingenuity of our people. If property is safe, if the nation is safe, if life is safe, then those bonds are safe. And if those bonds are not safe, then...
...century ago Germany's women melted their wedding rings for gold to defend their native land. Germany will do the like again, before she will admit bitter defeat. Should it be said, either now scornfully by our enemy who sacrifices his all, or by victory which without distortion records the great and the little in national deeds, that we failed, for all our wealth and all our pride, to equal in one decima that which Germany does? That in itself, irrespective of the outcome of the conflict of arms, would be defeat...