Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation will find this easy. Neither victory nor any form of post-war settlement will of itself create a millennium. Rather, we shall be offered an opportunity. The manifold tasks that lie ahead will not be accomplished overnight...
High behind the thronging shipyards, docks and naval works of Hampton Roads, Va. stands a bleak hillside cemetery. In the yellow Virginia soil, in row on row of new-heaped graves (already there are over 50), lie the bodies of German U-boat crews...
...ships to take 950,000 men to the Middle East, ships to capture Madagascar, ships to take huge convoys to India, ships to transport supplies to Russia, ships to save an army from Dunkirk, ships to keep this nation the best fed in Europe. Ships do not lie idle. They must be employed according to a rigid rule of priority. Suppose the Second Front became Number 1 priority. Perhaps then the greatest seafaring nation the world has ever seen would be unable to find the ships...
...discussion of the problem of propaganda in a democracy, showing clearly the distinction between education for citizenship and teaching the citizen to choose between the conflicting counsels to which he is exposed. For Professor Friedrich, the solution to the conflict between democracy and bureaucracy would seem to lie in a democratic process of decision and a self-imposed routine of carrying out decisions. "What is required," he writes, "is a willingness and ability to take orders and instructions and to carry them out faithfully, even when you disagree." The book concludes with a clarion call for a new belief...
...Discipline says: 'We urge Friends to be active in the performance of all the duties of good citizenship.' In a day when democratic nations are going down like ninepins, I doubt whether 'good citizenship' can reasonably be taken to lie in enjoying the benefits of democracy while refusing to defend it, and in using one's freedom to make the survival of freedom more difficult...