Word: mammon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have various over-rich persons in the community ignoring completely our government's plea for conservation. We have lawyers, politicians, and other men holding positions of public trust that are susceptible to advances by unscrupulous individuals. We have ministers who have become impregnated with the subtle influence of Mammon-worship which should be their deadliest foe. Last of all, we have a whole nation, our own United States of America, willing to go ahead pursuing industrial "progress" at the unmistakable expense of the welfare and happiness of its people...
...have been scoffed at for a nation of money-lovers, we, the greatest idealists in politics since the French Revolution. The warring powers have said, scornfully or sorrowfully, that we have forgotten our ancient tradition of liberty and of strength, bending our knees in idolatry to false gods of Mammon. They have said we no longer remember how the victorious fight. But now that we have conquered our hesitancy, now that we have conquered the vain idealism of peace, we will go into war as we have always gone into war: seeking no end but the utmost end, stopping...
...relation in life involves some sacrifice, or it would have no moral significance. It would be nothing but a highly intelligent selfishness. If you are not prepared for sacrifice you are not in harmony with a moral order in the world. "If you are not faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? If you have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your...